Breaking the silence on senior abuse in Aboriginal communities
Since 1999, November 25 has been the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. It was started to commemorate the brutal 1960 assassination of three sisters in the Dominican Republic. To mark the day, MI is exploring a problem not readily acknowledged or discussed in Indigenous communities: senior abuse. While violence comes in...
Has Ontario court ruling made life safer or riskier for Aboriginal sex workers?
A potentially divisive debate is underway among women’s advocates after a provincial court recently struck down some of the laws restricting prostitution in Canada. And as the Toronto Star‘s Antonia Zerbisias writes, “even Aboriginal women’s groups have clashed, not only with mainstream feminist activists but also with each other.” On Sept. 28, 2010, in the...
