Manitoba partners with federal government on Red Dress Alert for missing Indigenous women and girls

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Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree, centre, announces the pilot program, flanked by NDP MP Leah Gazan, right, and Nahanni Fontaine, left, who is the Manitoba minister for women and gender equity.

Canada and Manitoba are partnering to launch an alert system that would inform the public when an Indigenous woman or girl goes missing, they announced Friday in Winnipeg, ahead of a national day to mark the crisis. Canada and Manitoba are partnering to launch an alert system that would inform the public when an Indigenous woman or girl goes missing, they announced Friday in Winnipeg, ahead of a national day to mark the crisis.

A national inquiry concluded five years ago that they are 12 times more likely to go missing or murdered. The Manitoba pilot is to be designed with and led by Indigenous Peoples, and is expected to help inform an eventual national alert system.Nahanni Fontaine, Manitoba's minister for women and gender equity, said she has heard from community members who believe the alert system could help put Indigenous women and girls at less risk.

Gazan's fellow MPs unanimously backed her motion in the House of Commons last year declaring the deaths and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls a Canada-wide emergency.

 

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