Collection of Documents
Relating to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Canada
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Canada
This collection of documents brings together reports, press statements, and various other documents that shed light on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada. This collection was developed by the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action and has been subsequently expanded on by the Bora Laskin Law Library at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Various students and volunteers have generously contributed their time to developing this collection, including Anastasia Toma, Lara Koerner Yeo, and Liam Thompson.
While this collection is extensive, it is not comprehensive. It is a living collection of documents that will be updated in response to on-going reporting and community input. Please contact our library with comments and suggestions on documents to add to this collection. The collection is up to date as of April 2019.
The collection is set out in five parts:
I. Civil Society Reports
II. Government Reports
III. Secondary Resources
IV. United Nations Documents
V. Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Documents
NOTE: this collection does not currently include specific documents from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Access those documents on the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls website.
Documents
Civil Society Reports
Annual Reports
Special Reports and Position Papers
- Stolen Sisters: A Human Rights Response to Discrimination and Violence against Indigenous Women in Canada (2004)
- No More Stolen Sisters: The Need For a Comprehensive Response To Discrimination and Violence Against Indigenous Women in Canada (2009)
- Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada: A Summary of Amnesty International's Concerns and Call To Action (2014)
- Out of Sight, Out of Mind- Gender, Indigenous Rights & Energy Development in Northeast British Columbia ( 2016)
- The National Inquiry on Murders and Disappearances of Indigenous Women and Girls: Recommendations from the Symposium on Planning for Change – Towards a National Inquiry and an Effective National Action Plan (2016)
- Joint Statement: Canada Held to Account for its Disappointing Women's Rights Record by the UN CEDAW (Aboriginal Legal Services, Amnesty International, Barbara Schlifer Clinic, BC CEDAW Group, Canada Without Poverty, Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action, Chair in Indigenous Governance, Dr. Pam Palmater, Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC, Indigenous Women Against the Sex Industry, MiningWatch Canada, Native Women's Association of Canada, OXFAM West Coast LEAF) (2016)
- Statement on Draft Terms of Reference for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada (Amnesty International , Chair in Indigenous Governance, FAFIA) (2016)
- Open Letter: Re: Preliminary comments concerning the pre-inquiry consultation phase of a National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (From Amnesty International, Feminist Alliance for International Action, KAIROS, LEAF, Native Women's Association Canada) (2016)
- Statement on the Launch of the National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (August 2016)
- Blueprint for an Inquiry: Learning from the Failures of the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry (The Law Foundation BC, PIVOT, West Coast LEAF, BC Civil Liberties Association, Government of BC) (2012)
- Final Report: Strengthening the Circle to End Violence Against Aboriginal Women: Summit III to End Violence Against Aboriginal Women (Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centres, Ontario Native Women's Association, Métis Nation of Ontario, Independent First Nations Health Office & Ministry of Community and Social Services Developmental Services Branch) (2009)
- Knowledge Exchange Workshop- Successful Approaches for the Prevention of Aboriginal Family Violence (Madeleine Dion Stout , President of Dion Stout Reflections Inc. for the Public Health Agency of Canada's Family Violence Prevention Unit): (2009)
- The Start of Something Powerful: Strategizing for Safer Communities for BC Aboriginal Women (Pacific Association of First Nations Women, BC Women's Hospital & Health Centre BC Association of Specialized Victim Assistance and Counselling Programs) ( 2003)
- The Tragedy of Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women in Canada – We Can do Better: A Position Paper by the SisterWatch Project of the Vancouver Police Department and the Women's Memorial March Committee (2011)
- Open Letter: Preliminary Comments Concerning the Pre-Inquiry Consultation Phase of a National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (NWAC, Amnesty International, LEAF, FAFIA and Kairos) (2016)
- Part of the Solution, or Part of the Problem? The RCMP Update 2015: A comment by the Legal Strategy Coalition on Violence Against Indigenous Women on the RCMP Update to the National Operational Review, (2015)
- Statement on the Importance of Full Provincial and Territorial Cooperation with the Upcoming National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (2016)
- Review of Reports and Recommendations on Violence Against Indigenous Women in Canada: Master List of Report Recommendations Organized by Theme: (2015)
- Memorandum on Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women Legal Strategies (2014) :
- Analyzing the 2014 Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Report, Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women: A National Operational Review: A Guide for the Study of the RCMP Statistics in the 2015 Report (2015)
- Violence against Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada: Review of reports and recommendations – Preliminary Research Outcomes (2014)
- Review of reports and recommendations - Executive Summary (2015)
- Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls: A Comprehensive Literature Review. Spreadsheet Summary of Reports (2015)
- National Aboriginal Women's Summit II: Strong Women, Strong Communities Summary Report (2008) (From the Internet Archive)
- 5th Annual National Indigenous Women's Summit: Women of Metis Nations Perspectives (2017)
- Boyfriend or Not: Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking of Aboriginal Women and Girls in Canada: Report to the Embassy of the United States (2014)
- National Forum on Community Safety and Ending Violence: Workbook (Assembly of First Nations and Native Women's Association of Canada) (2013)
- Violations of Indigenous Human Rights: Submission to the Special Rapporteur investigating the Violations of Indigenous Human Rights (2002)
- Voices of Our Sisters in Spirit: A Report to Families and Communities, 2nd ed. (2009)
- What their Stories Tell Us- Research Findings from the Sisters in Spirit Initiative (2010)
- The National Inquiry on Murders and Disappearances of Indigenous Women and Girls: Recommendations from the Symposium on Planning for Change: Towards a National Inquiry and an Effective National Action Plan (Native Women's Association of Canada, Feminist Alliance for International Action, Canadian Journal of Women and the Law)
A Strategic Framework to End Violence Against Aboriginal Women (Ontario Native Women's Association and Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centres) (2007)
Federal and Provincial Government Reports
- Aboriginal Affairs Working Group (Provincial and Territorial Ministers of Aboriginal Affairs and National Indigenous Groups)
- Federal-Provincial-Territorial (FPT) Ministers Responsible for Justice and Public Safety
FPT Justice Framework to Address Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls January 21, 2016
FTP Missing Women Working Group
Report: Issues Related to the High Number of Murdered and Missing Women in Canada September 2010
- Library of Parliament
Background Paper: Addressing The Legacy of Residential Schools (September 2011)
- Standing Committee on Status of Women
- Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women
- Public Safety Canada: Aboriginal Corrections Policy Unit
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women: A National Operational Overview (2014)
- Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women-2015 Update to the National Operational Overview
- Working Together to end Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls: National Scan of RCMP Initiatives (May 12017)
- Chairperson-Initiated Complaint and Public Interest Investigation regarding Policing in Northern British Columbia: Chairperson Final Report After Commissioners Response (February 2017)
- Royal Commission on Aboriginal People
- Statistics Canada
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada/National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
- National Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls
- Policy and Research Reports
- Voices of the Families: Recommendations of the Families of the Missing and Murdered Women: A Consultation Report Prepared for the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry (2012)
- Downtown Eastside Consultation Program Report: Prepared for the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry January 2012
- Revisiting the Regionalization Debate- A Dialogue on the Structure and Organization of Policing in British Columbia: A Consultation Report Prepared For The Missing Women Commission of Inquiry June 2012,
- Bridging the Gap to Shape the Future: The Report on the Policy Forums: A Consultation Report Prepared for the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry June 2012.
- Standing Together & Moving Forward: The Northwest Consultations: A Consultation Report Prepared for the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry June 2012 :
- Police Protection of Vulnerable & Marginalized Women: A Policy Discussion Report for the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry February 2012
- Towards More Effective Missing Women's Investigations: Police relationships with Victims' Families, the Community and the Media: A Policy Discussion Report for the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry March 2012 :
- Policies and Practices in the Investigations of Missing Persons & Suspected Multiple Homicides: A Policy Discussion Report for the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry March 2012
- From Report to Substantive Change- Healing, Reconciliation & Implementation: A Policy Discussion Report for the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry April 2012
- Practices & Procedures In the Investigations of Missing Persons Across Canada: 1997 to Present: A Report Prepared for the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry March 2012
- Policies and Practices in the Treatment of Vulnerable & Intimidated Witnesses: A Policy Discussion Report Prepared for the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry February 2012
- Violence Against Women: Evolving Canadian & International Legal Standard on Police Duties to Protect & Investigate: A Research Report Prepared for the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry June 2012
- Municipal Policing in the Lowe Mainland District of B.C: Prepared for the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry October 2011
- Missing Women Commission of Inquiry
- Forsaken: The Report of the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry (Oppal Report)
- Executive Summary
- Volume 1 – The Women, Their Lives and the Framework of Inquiry: Setting the Context for Understanding and Change
- Volume IIA – Nobodies: How and Why We Failed the Missing and Murdered Women, Part 1 and 2
- Volume IIB – Nobodies: How and Why We Failed the Missing and Murdered Women, Part 3, 4 and 5
- Volume III – Gone, but not Forgotten: Building the Women's Legacy of Safety Together
- Volume IV – The Commission's Process
- Forsaken: The Report of the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry (Oppal Report)
- Oppal Report Updates
- Report in Response to Forsaken: The Report of The Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, 2019 Status Update - February 28, 2019
- Report in Response to Forsaken: The Report of The Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, Status Update – February 28, 2018
- A Final Status Update Report in Response to: Forsaken – The Report of the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry – December 4, 2014
- Safety and Security of Vulnerable Women in B.C. (Status Report) – November 5, 2013
- Policy and Research Reports
- Voices of the Families: Recommendations of the Families of the Missing and Murdered Women: A Consultation Report Prepared for the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry (2012)
- Downtown Eastside Consultation Program Report: Prepared for the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry January 2012
- Revisiting the Regionalization Debate- A Dialogue on the Structure and Organization of Policing in British Columbia: A Consultation Report Prepared For The Missing Women Commission of Inquiry June 2012,
- Bridging the Gap to Shape the Future: The Report on the Policy Forums: A Consultation Report Prepared for the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry June 2012.
- Standing Together & Moving Forward: The Northwest Consultations: A Consultation Report Prepared for the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry June 2012 :
- Police Protection of Vulnerable & Marginalized Women: A Policy Discussion Report for the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry February 2012
- Towards More Effective Missing Women's Investigations: Police relationships with Victims' Families, the Community and the Media: A Policy Discussion Report for the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry March 2012 :
- Policies and Practices in the Investigations of Missing Persons & Suspected Multiple Homicides: A Policy Discussion Report for the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry March 2012
- From Report to Substantive Change- Healing, Reconciliation & Implementation: A Policy Discussion Report for the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry April 2012
- Practices & Procedures In the Investigations of Missing Persons Across Canada: 1997 to Present: A Report Prepared for the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry March 2012
- Policies and Practices in the Treatment of Vulnerable & Intimidated Witnesses: A Policy Discussion Report Prepared for the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry February 2012
- Violence Against Women: Evolving Canadian & International Legal Standard on Police Duties to Protect & Investigate: A Research Report Prepared for the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry June 2012
- Municipal Policing in the Lowe Mainland District of B.C: Prepared for the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry October 2011
- Ministry of Community Services and Minister Responsible for Seniors' and Women's Issues
- Researched to Death- B.C Aboriginal Women and Violence: Final Report (September 9, 2005) (Pacific Association of First Nations Women BC Women's Hospital & Health Centre BC Association of Specialized Victim Assistance and Counselling Programs ) (2005) :
- Ministry of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation (BC MARR) and the Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC): Collaboration to End Violence: National Aboriginal Women's Forum
- Report on Outcomes and Recommendations from Working Sessions (2011) (PDF doc downloads automatically)
- Minister's Advisory Council on Aboriginal Women (MACAW)
- Vancouver Police Department
- Missing Women Commission of Inquiry
- Aboriginal Justice Inquiry of Manitoba
- Volume l: The Justice System and Aboriginal People
- Volume ll: The Death of Helen Betty Osborne
- Volume llI: The Death of John Joseph Harper
- Aboriginal Justice Inquiry of Manitoba
- New Brunswick Advisory Committee on Violence Against Aboriginal WomenA Strategic Framework to End Violence against Wabanaki Women in New Brunswick March 2008
- Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Health and Community Services and the Women's Policy Office/Provincial Association Against Family Violence
Moving Towards Safety: Responding to Family Violence In Aboriginal and Northern Communities of Labrador 2002
- Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Health and Community Services and the Women's Policy Office/Provincial Association Against Family Violence
Provincial Partnership Committee on Missing Persons
Report on the 2011 Western Regional Forum on Supporting Families of Missing Persons (May 2011)
Final Report of the Provincial Partnership Committee on Missing Persons (October 2007)
Missing Persons in Saskatchewan: Police Policy and Practice (November 2006)
Secondary Resources
(with links to open-access resources – where available)
- Borrows, John. "Aboriginal and Treaty Rights and Violence against Women" (2013) 50:3 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 699.
- Christie, Gordon. "Aboriginal Citizenship: Sections 35, 25 and 15 of Canada's Constitution Act, 1982" (2003) 7:4 Citizenship Studies 481. :
- Duhaime, Bernard & Josée-Anne Riverin. "Double Discrimination and Equality Rights 0f Indigenous Women In Quebec" (2011) 65:3 University of Miami Law Review 903. lr
- Gunn, Brenda L. "Self-Determination and Indigenous Women: Increasing Legitimacy through Inclusion" (2014) 26 Can J Women & L 241
- McIvor, Sharon, Pamela Palmater, & Shelagh Day, “Equality Delayed is Equality Denied for Indigenous Women”, (2019) 33:1- 2 Canadian Women Studies/les cahiers de la femme 171.
- Buhler, Sarah. "Dying from Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody by Sherene H. Razack (review)" (2016) 28:2 Can J of Women & Law 457.
- Chartrand, Larry & McKay, Celeste, A Review of Research on Criminal Victimization and First Nations, Metis and Inuit Peoples 1900-2001
- McGill, Jena. "An Institutional Suicide Machine: Discrimination Against Federally Sentenced Aboriginal Women in Canada" (2008) 2:1 Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts 89.
- Monchalin, Lisa. "Canadian Aboriginal peoples victimization, offending and its prevention: Gathering the evidence" (2010) 12:2 Crime Prev Community Saf 119.
- Savarese, Josephine L. "Re-Imagining an Agentic Ashley: A Review of Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich, Looking for Ashley: Re-Reading What the Smith Case Reveals about the Governance of Girls, Mothers and Families in Canada Special Issue: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Conference: Book Reviews" (2016) 28:2 Can J Women & L 452.
- Bailey, Jane & Sara Shayan. "Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Crisis: Technological Dimensions Special Issue: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Conference" (2016) 28 Can J Women & L 321.
- Bourgeois, Robyn. "Colonial Exploitation: The Canadian State and the Trafficking of Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada" (2015) 62 UCLA L Rev 1426.
- Conroy, Amy & Teresa Scassa. "Balancing Transparency and Accountability with Privacy in Improving the Police Handling of Sexual Assaults Special Issue: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Conference" (2016) 28 Can J Women & L 342.
- Dylan, Arielle, Cheryl Regehr & Ramona Alaggia. "And Justice for All?: Aboriginal Victims of Sexual Violence" (2008) 14:6 Violence Against Women 678.
- Harper, Anita Olsen. "Is Canada Peaceful and Safe for Aboriginal Women?" 25:1, 2 Canadian Woman Studies 6.
- Pedersen, Jeanette Somlak, Lorraine Halinka Malcoe & Jane Pulkingham. "Explaining Aboriginal/Non-Aboriginal Inequalities in Postseparation Violence Against Canadian Women: Application of a Structural Violence Approach" (2013) 19:8 Violence Against Women 1034.
- Razack, Sherene H. "Gendered Racial Violence and Spatialized Justice: The Murder of Pamela George Law, Race and Space/Droit, Espaces et Racialisation" (2000) 15 Can JL & Soc 91.
- Razack, Sherene H. "Gendering Disposability Special Issue: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Conference" (2016) 28 Can J Women & L 285.
- Snyder, Emily, Val Napoleon & John Borrows. "Gender and Violence: Drawing on Indigenous Legal Resources" (2015) 48 UBC L Rev 593.
- Sweet, Victoria. "Rising Waters, Rising Threats: The Human Trafficking of Indigenous Women in the Circumpolar Region of the United States and Canada" (2014) 6 Y B Polar L 162.
- Ambtman, Ruby et al."Promoting System-Wide Cultural Competence for Serving Aboriginal Families and Children in a Midsized Canadian City" (2010) J Ethnic Cultural Diversity in Social Work 235.
- Boyer, Yvonne. "First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Women's Health: A Rights-Based Approach" (2017) 54:3 Alta L Rev.
- Denison, Jacqueline, Colleen Varcoe & Annette J Browne. "Aboriginal women's experiences of accessing health care when state apprehension of children is being threatened" (2014) 70:5 J Adv Nurs 1105.
- Grace, Sherry L. "A Review of Aboriginal Women's Physical and Mental Health Status in Ontario" (2003) 94:3 Canadian Journal of Public Health / Revue Canadienne de Santé Publique 173.
- Green, B L. "Applying interdisciplinary theory in the care of Aboriginal women's mental health" (2010) 17:9 J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs 797.
- Herk, Kimberley Anne Van, Dawn Smith & Caroline Andrew. "Identity matters: Aboriginal mothers' experiences of accessing health care" (2010) 37:1 Contemp Nurse 57.
- Senese, Laura C & Kathi Wilson. "Aboriginal urbanization and rights in Canada: examining implications for health" (2013) 91 Soc Sci Med 219.
- Tang, Sannie Y & Annette J Browne. "'Race' matters: racialization and egalitarian discourses involving Aboriginal people in the Canadian health care context" (2008) 13:2 Ethnicity & Health 109.
- Collard, Juliane. "Into the archive: Vancouver's Missing Women Commission of Inquiry" (2015) 33:5 Environ Plan D 779.
- Goudge, Stephen. "The Berger Inquiry in Retrospect: Its Legacy Special Issue: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Conference" (2016) 28 Can J Women & L 393.
- Hargreaves, Allison. "Finding Dawn and Missing Women in Canada: Story-Based Methods in Antiviolence Research and Remembrance" (2015) 27:3 Studies in American Indian Literatures 82.
- Hoole, Grant R. "The Forms and Limits of Judicial Inquiry: Judges as Inquiry Commissioners in Canada and Australia" (2014) 37 Dalhousie LJ 431.
- McMillan, L Jane. "Still Seeking Justice: The Marshall Inquiry Narratives Special Issue: Law on the Edge" (2014) 47 UBC L Rev 927.
- Palmater, Pamela. "Shining Light on the Dark Places: Addressing Police Racism and Sexualized Violence against Indigenous Women and Girls in the National Inquiry Special Issue: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Conference" (2016) 28 Can J Women & L 253.
- Patrick, Kirsten. "Not just justice: inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women needs public health input from the start" (2016) CMAJ.
- Razack, Sherene H. "Sexualized Violence and Colonialism: Reflections on the Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Special Issue: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Conference: Editorial" (2016) 28 Can J Women & L i.
- Rosiers, Nathalie Des. "Public Inquiries and Law Reform Institutions: Truth Finding and Truth Producing Special Issue: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Conference" (2016) 28 Can J Women & L 374.
- Savarese, Josephine L. "Challenging Colonial Norms and Attending to Presencing in Stories of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women" (2017) 29 Can J Women & L 157.
- Smiley, Cherry. "A Long Road behind Us, a Long Road Ahead: Towards an Indigenous Feminist National Inquiry Special Issue: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Conference" (2016) 28 Can J Women & L 308.
- Woroniak, Monique. "'The Danger of a Single Story': Readers' Advisory Work and Indigenous Peoples" (2014) 54:1 Reference & User Services Quarterly; Chicago 20. 1
(all documents in the McIvor case are accessible on the Poverty and Human Rights Centre website by year: 2011, 2016, 2017, 2018)
- Eberts, Mary, "McIvor: Justice Delayed - Again Case Comment" (2010) 9 Indigenous LJ 15.
- Day, Shelagh, “Equal Status for Indigenous Women – Sometime, Not Now: The Indian Act and Bill S-3”, (2019) 33:1-2 Canadian Women Studies/les cahiers de la femme 175.
- Sharon McIvor and Jacob Grismer v Canada: Communication Submitted for Consideration Under The First Optional Protocol To The International Covenant On Civil And Political Rights
- Human Rights Committee, Views adopted by the Committee under article 5(4) of the Optional Protocol, concerning Communication No. 2020/2010 (January 11, 2019)
- Craig, Elaine. "Person(s) of Interest and Missing Women: Legal Abandonment in the Downtown Eastside" (2014) 60 McGill L J 1.
- Dean, Amber. "The CMHR and the Ongoing Crisis of Murdered or Missing Indigenous Women: Do Museums Have a Responsibility to Care?" (2015) 37:2–3 Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 147.
- Eberts, Mary, Sharon McIvor & Teressa Nahanee. "Native Women's Association of Canada v. Canada Special Issue/Numero Special - Rewriting Equality/Recrire l'Egalite: Judgments/Jugements" (2006) 18 Can J Women & L 67.
- Eberts, Mary. "Knowing and Unknowing: Settler Reflections on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Sallows Lecture" (2014) 77 Sask L Rev 69.
- Harell, Allison & Dimitrios Panagos. "Locating the Aboriginal Gender Gap: The Political Attitudes and Participation of Aboriginal Women in Canada" (2013) 9:4 Politics & Gender 414.
- Jiwani, Yasmin & Mary Lynn Young. "Missing and Murdered Women: Reproducing Marginality in News Discourse" (2006) 31:4 Canadian Journal of Communication.
- McIvor, Sharon Donna. "Aboriginal Women Unmasked: Using Equality Litigation to Advance Women's Rights" (2004) 16 Can J Women & L 106.
- Moll, Sorouja. "The Writing Names Project: UnSilencing the Number of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls" (2016) 168:168 Canadian Theatre Review 94.
- Pearce, Maryanne. "An Awkward Silence: Missing and Murdered Vulnerable Women and the Canadian Justice System" Doctoral Thesis, Doctorate of Laws, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law Common Law Section (2013)
- Strong-Boag, Veronica. "Rejecting Evidence for Justice: The Anti-Women Politics of Canadian Conservation Special Issue on Gender" (2016) 12 JL & Equal 39.
- Alcantara, Christopher. "Aboriginal policy reform and the subsidiarity principle: A case study of the division of matrimonial real property on Canadian Indian reserves" 51:2 Canadian Public Administration 317.
- Brodsky, Gwen. "Indian Act Sex Discrimination: Enough Inquiry Already, Just Fix it Special Issue: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Conference" (2016) 28 Can J Women & L 314.
- Walker, Ryan C. "Interweaving Aboriginal/Indigenous Rights with Urban Citizenship: A View from the Winnipeg Low-Cost Housing Sector, Canada" (2006) 10:4 Citizenship Studies 391.
- Kaye, Julie. "Reconciliation in the Context of Settler-Colonial Gender Violence: 'How Do We Reconcile with an Abuser?'" 53:4 Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie 461.
- Muldoon, Paul. "Thinking Responsibility Differently: Reconciliation and the Tragedy of Colonisation" (2005) 26:3 Journal of Intercultural Studies 237.
United Nations Documents
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
UN Reports on Canada
Consideration of Reports Submitted By States Parties Under Article 9 Of The Convention: Concluding Observations of The Committee on The Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Canada (CERD/C/CAN/CO/18 )
Summary Record of the 1791st Meeting: Consideration of Reports, Comments and Information Submitted by States Parties Under Article 9 Of The Convention: Seventeenth And Eighteenth Periodic Reports Of Canada (Continued) (CERD/C/SR.1791)
Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 9 of the convention: Concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Canada (CERD/C/CAN/CO/19-20)
Summary Record of the 2142nd Meeting: Consideration of reports, comments and information submitted by States parties under article 9 of the Convention: Nineteenth and twentieth periodic reports of Canada (continued) (CERD/C/SR.2142)
Civil Society Submissions
Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA)
Submission of the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination On the occasion of its review of Canada's 17th and 18th periodic reports under the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (February 2007)International Indian Treaty Council
Submission Re: The Report of the government of Canada to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, concerning Canada's 17th and 18th Periodic Reports to the CERD (CERD/C/CAN/18) to be considered at its 70th session (February-March 2007)Native Women's Association of Canada
Native Women's Association Of Canada's Response To Canada's Seventeenth And Eighteenth Periodic Reports To The Committee On The Elimination Of Racial Discrimination (February 2007)
- Amnesty International
Canada: Briefing to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (February 2012) - Canadian Human Rights Commission
Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (January 2012) - Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA)
Disappearances and Murders of Aboriginal Women and Girls in Canada Submission to the United Nations Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination (January 2012) - Indigenous Bar Association
NGO Report on Canada's Nineteenth and Twentieth Periodic Report to CERD (January 2012) - Lawyers Watch BC & BC CEDAW Group
Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women and Girls in British Columbia and Canada: Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on the occasion of its review of Canada's 19th and 20th reports (January 2012) - First Nations Child & Family Caring Society, KAIROS, AFN, NWAC
Response to Canada's 19th and 20th Periodic Reports: Alternative Report on how Canada fails First Nations children in child welfare (Joint Submission by the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada, KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives, the Assembly of First Nations, Native Women's Association of Canada, Canadian Friends Service Committee (Quakers), the Union of BC Indian Chiefs, Chiefs of Ontario, Treaty Four First Nations, Indigenous World Association) (February – March 2012)
- Amnesty International
- Aboriginal Legal Services
- Amnesty International
- Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform
Issues Prior to Reporting: Canada's Compliance with the Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (July – August 2017) - Canadian Human Rights Commission
Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on the Occasion of its Consideration of Canada's 21st – 23rd Periodic Reports (July 2017) - Coalition for the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Canada: Implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Joint Submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (July – August 2017) - Joint Submission: Canada: Violence against Indigenous women and girls: UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 93rd Session
(Amnesty International Canada, Assembly of First Nations, Assembly of the First Nations of Quebec and Labrador, British Columbia Assembly of First Nations, Canadian Friends Service Committee (Quakers), First Nations Summit, KAIROS, Oxfam Canada, Union of BC Indian Chiefs) (July – August 2017) - National Aboriginal Circle Against Family Violence & Quebec Native Women Inc
Alternative Report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (July 2017) - Joint Submission: Inequitable Access to Essential Services for First Nations Children/Ongoing Failure to Comply with a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ordering and End to Such Discrimination (July 2017)
(Amnesty International Canada Broadbent Institute Canadian Friends Service Committee Children First Canada First Nations Child and Family Caring Society Justice for Indigenous Women KAIROS Oxfam Canada Oxfam-Québec Project of Heart Rideau Institute United Food and Commercial Workers Canada) - Native Women's Association of Canada
Alternative Report: Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 21st – 23rd Reports of Canada (July 2017) - Joint Submissions of FAFIA, Chair in Indigenous Governance, and the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies: Discrimination against Indigenous and Racialized Women in Canada Report to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on the Occasion of the Committee’s twenty-first to twenty-third Periodic Review of Canada (2017)
Canada's Submissions
- Reports Submitted by States Parties Under Article 9 of the Convention: Eighteenth periodic report of States parties due in 2003 Addendum: Canada CERD/C/Can/18 (2006):
- Information provided by the Government Canada on the implementation of the concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD/C/Can/CO/18/ADD.1) (2009) :
- Reports submitted by States parties under article 9 of the Convention: Nineteenth and twentieth periodic reports of States parties due in 2009: Canada (2011): (CERD/C/CAN/19-20) (2011)
- Information received from Canada on follow-up to the concluding observations (CERD/C/CAN/CO/19-20/Add.1) (2015)
First Nation's Submissions
- Assembly of First Nations
Submission of the Assembly of First Nations to the United Nations Committee on Racial Discrimination: Response to Canada's 19th and 20th Periodic Reports (February – March 2012) - First Nations Summit
- Shadow Report: Submission to CERD (January 2012)
- Joint Submission: Response to Canada's 19th and 20th Periodic Reports: Consolidated Indigenous Alternative Report (International Indian Treaty Council, Confederacy of Treaty 6 First Nations, the First Nations Summit, Dene Nation and Assembly of First Nations Regional Office (Northwest Territories), Assembly of First Nations, Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs, Samson Cree Nation, Ermineskin Cree Nation, Native Women's Association of Canada, Indigenous World Association, Treaty 4 First Nations) (February – March 2012) (Word doc downloads automatically)
- Six Nations of Grand River
Shadow Report Responding to Canada's 19th and 20th Reports to the CERD (January 2012)
- Assembly of First Nations
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
UN Reports on Canada
- Human Rights Committee
Consideration of Reports Submitted by State Parties Under Article 40 of the Covenant: Concluding Observations of the Human Rights Committee: Canada (CCPR/C/CAN/CO/5)
- Human Rights Committee
- Human Rights Committee
Concluding observations on the sixth periodic report of Canada (CCPR/C/CAN/CO/6)
- List of issues in relation to the sixth periodic report of Canada (CCPR/C/CAN/Q/6)
Civil Society Submissions
- Amnesty International
- Amnesty International (114th Session)
- Amnesty International
- BC CEDAW Group
- Submission to the Human Rights Committee on the occasion of the consideration of the Sixth Periodic Report of Canada: Submitted June 5th, 2015 (Word doc – Opens automatically)
- Special Supplement on Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women in British Columbia: Group Submission to the Human Rights Committee on the occasion of the consideration of the Sixth Periodic Report of Canada: Submitted June 5th, 2015 (Word doc – Opens automatically.
- Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA)
- Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) & Native Women's Association of Canada
- KAIROS
- Canadian Human Rights Commission
Canada's Submissions
- Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 40 of the Covenant: Sixth periodic reports of States parties due in October 2010: Canada (CCPR/C/CAN/6)
- List of issues in relation to the sixth periodic report of Canada: Addendum: Replies of Canada to the list of issues CCPR/C/CAN/Q/6/ (2014):
- Interim Report of Canada on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
UN Reports on Canada
- Concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women: Canada (CEDAW/C/CAN/CO/7) (2008)
- Follow Up Letter to Canada (2010) (HDI/follow-up/42/CAN/46)
- Follow Up Letter to Canada (2011) AA/follow-up/42/CAN/48:
Concluding observations on the combined eighth and ninth periodic reports of Canada (CEDAW/C/CAN/CO/8-9) (2016)
Summary Record of the 1433rd Meeting: Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 18 of the Convention: Combined eighth and ninth periodic reports of Canada- (CEDAW/C/SR.1433) (2016)
Civil Society Reports
- Amnesty International
- Canada: follow Up To The Concluding Observations Of The United Nations Committee On The Elimination Of Discrimination Against Women (2009)
- Canada: Unequal Rights: Ongoing concerns about Discrimination against Women in Canada: Canada: Unequal Rights: Ongoing concerns about Discrimination against Women in Canada (2008)
- BC CEDAW Group
- Feminist Alliance For International Action (FAFIA)
- Letter to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (January 18, 2008
- Women's Inequality in Canada Submission of the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women on the occasion of the Committee's review of Canada's 6th & 7th reports (2008)
- A Failing Grade On Women's Equality: Canada's Human Rights Record on Women
- No Action, No Progress: FAFIA's Report on Canada's Progress in Implementing the 2008 CEDAW Committee Recommendations (2010)
- Justice for Girls
- Amnesty International
- Aboriginal Legal Services
- Amnesty International
- BC CEDAW Group
- Canadian Centre to End Human Trafficking
- Canadian Human Rights Commission
- EGALE
- Feminist Alliance for International Action
- Human Rights Watch
- Indigenous Women Against the Sex Industry:
- Joint Submission of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, the Centre for Indigenous Governance and the Feminist Alliance for International Action
- Joint Submission of Feminist Alliance for International Action and the Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres.
- Joint Submission of Feminist Alliance for International Action and the Native Women's Association of Canada
- Joint Submission of Human Rights Watch and University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, International Human Rights Program
- Joint Submission PIVOT & Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform:
Canada's Submissions
Paragraphs 43, 48 and 49 (CEDAW/C/CAN/CO/7/Add.1/Corr.1) (2010)
- Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 18 of the Convention: Eighth and ninth periodic reports of States parties due in 2014(CEDAW/C/CAN/8-9) (2015)
- List of issues and questions in relation to the combined eighth and ninth periodic reports of Canada (CEDAW/C/CAN/Q/8-9/Add.1) (2016)
First Nations Submissions
- Six Nations Traditional Women's Council Fire And Haudenosaunee (The People) FORWARD (For Women's Autonomy, Rights and Dignity)
CEDAW Inquiry Documents
International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights
UN Reports on Canada
- Summary Records of the 7th Meeting: Sixth Periodic Report of Canada (E/C.12/2016/SR. 7) (2016)
- Concluding observations on the sixth periodic report of Canada (E/C.12/CAN/CO/6) (2016)
Civil Society Reports
- Amnesty International
- BC CEDAW
- Canadian Human Rights Commission
- Feminist Alliance For International Action:
- Indigenous Bar Association Canada
Canada's Submissions
- Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under articles 16 and 17 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Sixth periodic reports of States parties due in 2010: Canada (E/C.12/CAN/6) (2013):
- List of issues in relation to the sixth periodic report of Canada; addendum: Replies of Canada to the list of Issues (E/C.12/CAN/Q/6/Add.1) (2016)
First Nations Submission
Special Reports
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Documents
144th Session
- Missing And Murdered Aboriginal Women And Girls Inbritish Columbia, Canada: Briefing Paper for Thematic Hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (Native Women's Association of Canada: Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action: University of Miami School of Law Human Rights Clinic) (2012)
- Missing And Murdered Aboriginal Women And Girls In British Columbia, Canada: Follow-Up Briefing Paper (Native Women's Association of Canada: Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action: University of Miami School of Law Human Rights Clinic) (2012)
- Request for Thematic Hearing during the 144th Period of Sessions (Native Women's Association of Canada: Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action: University of Miami School of Law Human Rights Clinic) (2012)