National action plan for missing and murdered Indigenous women delayed

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Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister said COVID-19 is making meeting the June 3 date for Ottawa’s promised national action plan impossible

Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett takes her seat as she wait to appear before the Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee in Ottawa, on March 10, 2020.Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett says a national action plan to make life safer for Indigenous women and girls is not going to be ready next month as planned.

June 3 will mark one year since the national inquiry on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls concluded with a 1,200-page report and 231 “calls for justice.” Bennett told the Assembly of First Nations last December that the government’s promised national action plan would be ready by the one-year anniversary.She says the government remains committed to getting the response completed but that many of the people who were working on the front lines of the response are the same people helping provinces and Indigenous communities cope with the pandemic.

The Native Women’s Association of Canada and other advocates for the families of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls say the pandemic is worsening violence against Indigenous women and say communities cannot wait any longer.

 

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Mr black face only cares about his commy seat on the U.N. HE OR SHE NOT SURE WHAT GENDER IT IS..Could not care less if you live or die or are starving it just want's your money for it's own personal benefit. Free everything for illegals terrorists rent, food, weed, booze Pathetic

They are being murdered by their own people.

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