The Calls to Justice of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry

The Chief Commissioner of the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry called violence against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people “a national tragedy of epic proportions”. The Inquiry’s Final Report spoke of genocide, colonialism, murder, and sexual violence as well as hope and a decolonized social order where oppression is confronted and rights to culture, health, security and justice are realized.
The expert speakers on this panel will engage the hard truths that the Inquiry laid bare and also speak to redress and the Inquiry’s Calls to Justice. They will ask why the Inquiry matters, what it means to call the situation ‘genocide’, whether the link to international human rights matters, as well as weigh in on how far the new Federal National Action Plan can take us, and the relevance of other political commitments for making implementation a reality.
Speakers:
Dr. Sherry Pictou - Assistant Professor in the Faculties of Law and Management at Dalhousie University focusing on Gender and Indigenous Governance.
Denise Pictou Maloney - a proud member of the Sipekne’katik First Nation in Nova Scotia and was raised just outside of K’jipuktuk (Halifax). She is an advocate for Indigenous inherent rights, inclusion and equity.
Cheryl Simon - a proud Mi’kmaw woman from Epekwitk, with extensive experience in community-based policy development.
Chair: Constance MacIntosh, Acting Scholarly Director for the MacEachen Institute, is a professor with the Schulich School of Law where she served as the Viscount Bennett Professor of Law (2018-2021) and Director of Dalhousie’s Health Law Institute (2011-2017).
Blessing: 1:28
Intro: 3:55
Cheryl Simon: 7:10
Intro: 17:15
Dr. Sherry Pictou: 18:20
Intro: 30:07
Denise Pictou Maloney: 31:41
Discussion: 44:49
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