#stillmissingandmurdered

A Statistics Canada study in 2023 has found that Indigenous women in Canada are killed at a rate 6x higher than non-Indigenous women, and yet police charged 1st degree murder half as often, typically recommending manslaughter or 2nd degree.

Non-exhaustive estimates have suggested that over 4,000 indigenous women and girls (along with 600 men and boys) in Canada have gone missing between 1956 and 2016.

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