Co-authored by Dr. Pamela Palmater and Justice for Girls’ Vice-President Zoë Craig-Sparrow, this paper was published by the University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review. It highlights how Canada’s laws and history of discrimination have disproportionate impacts on First Nations women and girls and their role in the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women. Read the full paper: Tools of Genocide: Forced Assimilation in Canada
Read about our areas of work
- Child Welfare System
- Criminal Justice System
- Disability Rights
- Environmental Justice
- Gender Equality
- Girls' Access to Education
- Girls' Access to Housing & Homelessness
- Girls' Access to Justice
- Girls' Rights to Life
- Indigenous Rights
- Legacy of Colonization
- MMIWG (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women)
- Police Accountability
- Poverty
- Prisons
- Sexual Exploitation & Human Trafficking
- Systemic Racism
- Violence Against Girls