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
Winter 2010/2011 brought extreme environmental conditions throughout the Canadian Arctic. This slideshow site uses images and text to show the results of a project that determines whether these...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, food security, Foodbanks and Food, Inuit, north, Northwest Territories, Nunavut
National Inuit Youth Council website gives youth and other visitors a chance to connect, open communications, raise awareness, hear what people think and feel and help each other. News, photos,...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Children and Youth, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Québec
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
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
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
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
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
Elders in Inuvik have organized and are demanding town council to move ahead with plans to develop a popular tourist campground into a multi-unit housing complex. Read a CBC story about the elder's...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Housing, Seniors and Elders, Northwest Territories
