"There is one fundamental fact: her murder was a racist and sexist act. Helen Betty Osborne would be alive today had she not been an Aboriginal woman.”
- Report of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry of Manitoba

According to Canadian government statistics, young Indigenous women are five times more likely than other women of the same age to die as the result of violence. The Caucus has been active on a campaign called “Stolen Sisters” to fight violence and discrimination against Aboriginal women in Canada and to shed light on the numerous cases of violence against Aboriginal women that have gone unnoticed by governments.

The campaign is focused on pushing the federal government to work with Indigenous peoples’ organisations and policy to implement plans of action to ensure effective action is taken to stop violence against Indigenous women.

Download the Stolen Sisters campaign postcard

Visit Amnesty International’s Stolen Sisters Campaign website

Additional Resources

Aboriginal Peoples and Postsecondary Education in Canada. Michael Mendelson, Caledon Institute for Social Policy, July 2006

No Higher Priority: Aboriginal Post-Secondary Education in Canada. Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, House of Commons, Ottawa, June 2007.

Royal Commission on Aboriginal peoples,1999.