Collection of Documents

• A Compendium of Aboriginal Healing Foundation Research  (2010)

• Annual Reports

  • 2010-2011

  • 2011-2012

  • 2012-2013

  • 2013-2014

  • 2014-2015

  • 2015-2016

• Special Reports and Position Papers

  • First Nations Plan: Honouring our Past, Affirming our Rights, Seizing our Future  (2012)

  • Coordinated and Urgent Action to End Violence Against Indigenous Women  & Girls: Towards a National Action Plan (2012)

• 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)

• Progress on Women's Rights- Missing in Action: A Shadow Report on Canada's Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (2014)

• 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)

• Increasing Safety for Aboriginal Women: Key Themes and Resources (with Community Coordination for Women's Safety Program) (2011)

• Highway of Tears Symposium Recommendations Report: A Collective Voice for the Victims Who Have Been Silenced  (2006)

• Those Who Take Us Away: Abusive Policing and Failures in Protection of Indigenous Women and Girls in Northern British Columbia, Canada (2013)
• Submission to the Government of Canada on Police Abuse of Indigenous Women in Saskatchewan and Failures to Protect Indigenous Women from Violence (2017)

• 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)  

• Strategic Plan for Inuit Violence Prevention and Healing (2016)
• National Strategy to Prevent Abuse in Inuit Communities and Sharing Knowledge, Sharing Wisdom: A Guide to the National Strategy (2006)  

• Violence Against Aboriginal Women- Scan and Report (2011) :

• Aboriginal Deaths and Injuries in Custody and/or With Police Involvement: An Initial Survey of Information and Incidents in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario: Preliminary Report ( 2003)  

• Ending Violence in Aboriginal Communities- Best Practices in Aboriginal Shelters and Communities (2006)

• 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.