BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260704T142613EDT-687531WmTV@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260704T182613Z DESCRIPTION:An estimated 583 to 3000 aboriginal women have gone missing\nor been murdered in Canada since the 1980s. This event features a\nroundtabl e discussion between community members and researchers\nthat have dedicate d themselves to bringing awareness to this issue.\nThe general lack of inf ormation or proper coverage\, as well as an\nabsence of police investigati ons of missing and murdered women\nraises cause for concern.\nSpeakers wil l share with us their perspectives on the scope of\nthis issue\, the facto rs that aggravate\, and the actions that need\nto be taken to address the continued disappearance of our\nsisters.\nThe discussion will be facilitat ed by Colleen\nSheppard\, Director of the Centre for Human Rights and\nLeg al Pluralism.\nInvited guests \nGladys Radek and Bernie Williams -\nfounde rs of Walk4Justice\, a grass roots movement aimed at drawing\npublic atten tion to the countless number of aboriginal women who\nhave either gone mis sing or have been murdered throughout Canada.\nGladys took up the campaign  after her niece went missing on\nHighway 16\, also known as the Highway o f Tears. Bernie took up the\ncampaign after loosing her mother and two of her sisters to\nviolence. The tragedies suffered by these women brought th em\ntogether to work tirelessly for change. To keep\npublic attention focu sed on our mothers\, daughters\, and\nsisters\, Gladys and Bernie organize d a walk across from Vancouver\nto Parliament in 2008 and another last Jun e from Vancouver and up\nalong Highway 16.\nCraig Benjamin - national camp aigner for the\nhuman rights of Indigenous peoples with Amnesty Internatio nal\nCanada. Craig's work has included coordination of research and\ncampa igning on violence against Indigenous women\, advocacy on a\nnumber of Ind igenous land rights cases across Canada\, and promotion\nof the United Nat ions Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous\nPeoples. In addition to his work at Amnesty International\, Craig\nhas had the honour of working with Indigenous communities in Latin\nAmerica and South East Asia on a wide ran ge of rights issues from\ntraditional knowledge protection to peacebuildin g\nDavid Hugill - Ph.D. student at York\nUniversity and author of MISSING WOMEN\, MISSING NEWS\; Covering\nCrisis in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside\, which examines\nnewspaper coverage of the arrest and trial of Robert Pick ton\, the\nman charged with murdering 26 street-level sex workers from\nVa ncouver's Downtown Eastside. The book demonstrates how news\nnarratives ob scured the complex matrix of social and political\nconditions that made it possible for so many women to simply\n'disappear' from a densely populate d urban neighborhood without\nprovoking an aggressive response by the stat e.\nThis event is brought to you by the Centre for Human Rights and\nLegal Pluralism and 91ºÚÁÏÍø's Aboriginal Law Association.\n DTSTART:20110310T230000Z DTEND:20110311T010000Z LOCATION:Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel SUMMARY:Stolen Sisters\; a critical discussion about missing and murdered a boriginal women in Canada URL:/channels/event/stolen-sisters-critical-discussion -about-missing-and-murdered-aboriginal-women-canada-172273 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR