Traduction de «réseau continental des femmes autochtones » (Français → Anglais) :

Continental Network of Indiginous Women [ ENLACE network | ENLACE ]

Continental Forum of Indigenous Women of the Americas

DIAND Network on Native Women's Issues

We are also putting in place an Aboriginal women's entrepreneur network for this country, as well as a micro credit fund because some women in the community are not able to obtain funds under the Indian Act.

I had a police constable, he is non-native but his wife is native and he took the little box and crossed the ``X'' because his wife had a status card so when he crossed that little box said that his family was native they took his son immediately out of mainstream education and put him in alternate education.

Commissioner Oppal's report included an extensive list of 63 recommendations, including creating a regional police force and an independent committee to develop a proposed model and implementation plan for such a force; providing more public funds toward support services so that emergency centres for women in the sex trade can remain open 24 hours a day; developing and implementing an enhanced public transit system to provide safe travel between northern communities, particularly along Highway 16, referred to in my province as the Highway of Tears, where many Aboriginal women have gone missing; providing compensation for children of missing and murdered women; conducting equality audits on police ...[+++]forces with the aim of protecting marginalized and Aboriginal women from violence; funding more sex trade liaison officer positions and considering re-establishing the Vancouver Police and Native Liaison Society; and developing a Crown vulnerable women assault policy to provide guidance on persecution of crimes of violence against vulnerable women, including women engaged in the sex trade.

According to the Canadian Women’s Health Network, aboriginal women account for approximately 50% of all HIV-positive test reports among aboriginal people, compared with only 16% of their non-aboriginal counterparts. Unfortunately, the Conservative government has offered very few concrete solutions to improve this situation.