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An estimated 583 to 3000 aboriginal women have gone聽missing or been murdered in Canada since the 1980s. This event features a roundtable discussion between community members and researchers that have dedicated themselves to bringing awareness to this issue. The general lack of information or proper coverage, as well as an absence of police investigations of missing and murdered women raises cause for concern.

Speakers will share with us their perspectives on the scope of this issue, the factors that aggravate, and the actions that need to be taken to address the continued disappearance of our sisters.

The discussion will be facilitated by Colleen Sheppard, Director of the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism.

Invited guests聽

Gladys聽Radek and Bernie Williams - founders of Walk4Justice, a grass roots movement aimed at drawing public attention to the countless number of aboriginal women who have either gone missing or have been murdered throughout Canada. Gladys took up the campaign聽after her niece went missing on Highway 16, also known as the Highway of Tears. Bernie took up the campaign after loosing her mother and two of her sisters to violence.聽The tragedies suffered by these women brought them together to work tirelessly for change. To keep public聽attention focused on our mothers, daughters, and sisters, Gladys and Bernie organized a walk across from Vancouver to Parliament in 2008 and another last June from Vancouver and up along Highway 16.

Craig Benjamin - national campaigner for the human rights of Indigenous peoples with Amnesty International Canada. Craig's work has included coordination of research and campaigning on violence against Indigenous women, advocacy on a number of Indigenous land rights cases across Canada, and promotion of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. In addition to his work at Amnesty International, Craig has had the honour of working with Indigenous communities in Latin America and South East Asia on a wide range of rights issues from traditional knowledge protection to peacebuilding

顿补惫颈诲听贬耻驳颈濒濒 - Ph.D. student at York University and author of MISSING WOMEN, MISSING NEWS; Covering Crisis in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, which examines newspaper coverage of the arrest and trial of Robert Pickton, the man charged with murdering 26 street-level sex workers from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.聽The book demonstrates how news narratives obscured the complex matrix of social and political conditions that made it possible for so many women to simply 'disappear' from a densely populated urban neighborhood without provoking an aggressive response by the state.

This event is brought to you by the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism and 91黑料网's Aboriginal Law Association.