Indigenous women remain far more likely to be jailed or murdered than national average
With Indigenous women accounting for 50 per cent of the federal female inmate population — a statistic that has almost doubled since 2006 — the BC First Nation Justice Council released the final draft of a document aimed at building better and safer outcomes for women, girls, and two-spirit folks.
Though Indigenous women represent four per cent of Canada’s population, they account for half of women incarcerated in federal prisons and are four times more likely to be victims of violence. “There’s no space for women in the current justice system,” said Darla Rasmussen, a steering committee member for the BCFNJC. “It completely erases us.”
“In our communities we are matriarchal,” said Rasmussen. “It’s the women in our communities that are guiding our people from the youngest to the oldest.”“What we have is a continuous intentional oppression that led to marginalization of Indigenous people, and then the most vulnerable being, of course, Indigenous women and girls,” said Wilson.
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