May 4, 2012
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee) has just issued its first decision on a complaint against Canada under the Optional Protocol to the Convention on...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Human Rights, Violence, Women, Northwest Territories, All of Canada
March 27, 2012
The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) and the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) will appear today before the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights in...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Violence, Women, British Columbia, International
March 22, 2012
In 2009, Stephen Harper’s Conservative government changed the contents of the official citizenship guide that is given to all recent immigrants. The new version contained a lot more military history...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Ethnicity and Race, Immigrants and Refugees, Poverty Research, All of Canada
October 3, 2011
On the heels of Pivot's recent announcement that they will not be participating in the Missing Women's Inquiry, two more groups have withdrawn.
The Women's Memorial March Committee and the Downtown...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Human Rights, Violence, Women, British Columbia
September 19, 2011
In its fifth year, the large turnout for the annual DTES Women's Housing March shows that the movement pushing for better access to safe and affordable housing for women in the neighbourhood, is not...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Homelessness, Housing, Tenants' Rights, Violence, Women, British Columbia
August 24, 2011
A successful First Nations university program has closed as a result of federal funding cuts. The Indian Studies Support Program of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, which had...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Education, British Columbia
August 24, 2011
A series of podcasts by people involved in the history of the self-government movement in Yukon, "Voices of Visions" offers 10 20 minute podcasts.
The podcasts are available in mp3 format, allowing...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Art and Culture, Government Policy, Inuit, Yukon
August 15, 2011
The Social Planning and Research Council of BC has released a report on serving aboriginal homeless persons in a culturally sensitive way. From the Executive Summary:
Previous research has shown that...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Homelessness, British Columbia
August 3, 2011
The B.C. Missing Women Inquiry will examine the question of why it took so long to investigate and apprehend convicted murderer Robert Pickton. The Attorney General for B.C., Barry Penner, has denied...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Human Rights, Violence, Women, British Columbia
June 27, 2011
For the last month, members of the Downtown Eastside Power of Women group have been sharing their stories about hope, struggle, love and resistance in the Downtown Eastside on the Vancouver Media...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Art and Culture, Women, British Columbia
June 3, 2011
The Downtown Eastside Power of Women Group is launching the In Our Own Voices writing project in June 2011. After a six-week period of intensive writing, we are ready to share our stories about hope...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Art and Culture, Women, British Columbia
April 12, 2011
A article in rabble.ca talks about the amazing work of the Power of Women (POW) group in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. POW is "a group of women who live in a neighbourhood where residents face a...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Organizing, Women, British Columbia
March 10, 2011
Nutrition North Canada is a subsidy program run by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada meant to lower the price of healthy perishable foods for Canadians living in remote Northern areas. Nutrition...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Foodbanks and Food, Inuit, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon
February 22, 2011
The Teslin Tlingit Council in southern Yukon has signed a historic agreement to run its own justice system, allowing the self-governing First Nation to enact its own laws including wildlife and land...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Legal Research, Yukon
January 20, 2011
A research project looking at homelessness and affordable housing in the Northwest Territories (NWT) has released a short piece that looks very generally at homelessness among Indigenous people in...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Homelessness, Poverty Research, Northwest Territories
November 23, 2010
The Toronto Star investigative series on how Status Indians are falling further behind other Canadians in quality of life.
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, All of Canada
November 17, 2010
Sharon McIvor will file a complaint against Canada at the United Nations. She says, "Canada continues to discriminate against Aboriginal women and their descendants in the determination of...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Human Rights, Women, All of Canada, International
November 15, 2010
For the past four years, the federal government has refused to endorse the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, claiming that Canada could not support resource rights, the right to...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Human Rights, All of Canada, International
January 18, 2010
An article in the online magazine, Global Voices looks into the crisis of Aboriginal youth suicides in Canada due to poverty, colonization, isolation and lack of basic services. Suicide rates have...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Children and Youth, All of Canada
March 30, 2009
In February, the Victoria Times Colonist published a seven part series about the Indigenous housing crisis on the West Coast. The series exposed the poorly constructed houses, overcrowding, mold and...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Housing, British Columbia
October 5, 2008
Indigenous women's organizations are calling on all candidates in the upcoming federal election to stop the violence against indigenous women and children and to uphold and promote the rights of all...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Women, All of Canada
August 4, 2008
Pivot Legal Society, the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) and the United Native Nations have filed a human rights complaint against the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Disability, Homelessness, Human Rights, British Columbia
June 28, 2008
Recently the Canadian government enacted legislation that gives the same human rights to First Nation members living on reserve as Canadians in the rest of Canada. Previously, native people on...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Human Rights, All of Canada
June 28, 2008
Over one hundred Innu families who have been occupying their traditional territories are facing eviction by the Newfoundland and Labrador government. The evictions are seen as part of an ongoing...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Newfoundland, Québec
June 28, 2008
In memory of all the missing and murdered women and children, aboriginal women are walking from Victoria, BC to Ottawa from June to September 2008. Gladys Radek, who lost a niece to the Highway of...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Women, British Columbia, All of Canada
May 28, 2008
On May 29th, Aboriginal people across Canada will hold the second National Aboriginal Day of in Action. The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) calls upon people in Canada to stand together to call on...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Organizing, All of Canada
January 8, 2008
New research by Jack Hicks, a social research consultant living in Iqaluit, Nunavut, tracks how suicide trends in the Arctic correlate with increased colonialism and modernization in the Arctic....
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon, All of Canada, International
January 2, 2008
The Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women has a new fact sheet, Women’s experiences of social programs for people with low incomes (in PDF). This fact sheet weaves together the...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Ethnicity and Race, Welfare, Women, All of Canada
November 14, 2007
In follow up to his recent visit to Canada, the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, Miloon Kothari, has released a press release that calls for Canada to take immediate action to tackle the...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Homelessness, Housing, All of Canada
November 5, 2007
Legal Services Society has just approved the following report: Building Bridges: Improving Legal Services for Aboriginal Peoples (PDF) prepared by Ardith Walkem (First Nations lawyer). The report...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Legal Research, British Columbia
June 26, 2007
Last week, at the National Aboriginal Women's Summit, the Minister for Heritage and the Status of Women announced five years of funding to build and support women's shelters on reserves. According to...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Violence, Women, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon, All of Canada
April 6, 2007
The Strategic Research and Analysis Directorate at Indian and Northern Affairs Canada has released a report called Levels and Sources of Individual and Household Level Income for Inuit in Canada,...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Poverty Research, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Québec
March 22, 2007
The federal government has promised an increase of $21 million for First Nations in this years budget. This is a far cry from the $5 billion dollars promised in the Kelowna Accord which the...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Government Policy, All of Canada
February 27, 2007
For the past eight years native groups have been asking the BC government for an inquiry into the death of Frank Paul. Frank Paul, a Mi'kmaq man from New Brunswick, died of exposure after police left...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Human Rights, Violence, British Columbia
February 18, 2007
Across the country there are two projects involving low income women taking photographs of their lives. In Saskatchewan a group of First Nations women are photographing what they see everyday as part...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Art and Culture, Women, New Brunswick, Saskatchewan
January 7, 2007
In November, women who use the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre (DEWC) asked the centre to be remain open after regular hours and act as a shelter for homeless women. With the help of volunteers, the...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Homelessness, Housing, Organizing, Women, British Columbia
January 7, 2007
First Nations people across Canada have become increasingly unhappy with the Conservative government's policies on First Nations issues. According to an article in the Straight Goods, "Deep-sixing...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Human Rights, All of Canada
September 5, 2006
Some churches in Australian are calling on a campaign to make indigenous poverty history in Australia. Indigenous leaders in Australia have had to continually remind Australian Christians that the...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, International
July 31, 2006
http://www.aboriginalcanada.gc.ca/ - This federal government website is a window to Canadian Aboriginal online resources, contacts, information, and government programs and services.
http://www....
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Government information, All of Canada
July 14, 2006
The United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution to protect the rights of aboriginal peoples throughout the world. This includes their rights to land and resources as well as a...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, International
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