Wednesday 13 August 2014

Launch of Website for Community-led Database for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women | Deep Green Resistance News Service

Launch of Website for Community-led Database for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women | Deep Green Resistance News Service:
Image by Susanne Ure/Amnesty International
 "Launch of Website for Community-led Database for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women By No More Silence As Indigenous peoples, working for justice for #MMIW is a process that starts within our own communities. The launch of this  website is one example of the resurgence of community documentation as justice. In April of 2013, No More Silence, Families of Sisters in Spirit and the Native Youth Sexual Health Network began what has become a long term vision for a community-led database documenting the violent deaths and disappearances of Indigenous women. It is our collective hope that the lives of Indigenous Two Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning, intersex, and asexual (LGBTTQQIA) will also be recognized as gender based violence also impacts these communities and is often invisibilized."

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