Learn more about what’s being done for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people across Canada
Fighting for Change
If you would like to learn more about what is being done to end systemic racism and violence against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people, please reference the links below.
National Inquiry into MMIWG2S+
Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
The National Inquiry’s Final Report reveals that persistent and deliberate human and Indigenous rights violations and abuses are the root cause behind Canada’s staggering rates of violence against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people. The two volume report calls for transformative legal and social changes to resolve the crisis that has devastated Indigenous communities across the country.
The Final Report is comprised of the truths of more than 2,380 family members, survivors of violence, experts and Knowledge Keepers shared over two years of cross-country public hearings and evidence gathering. It delivers 231 individual Calls for Justice directed at governments, institutions, social service providers, industries and all Canadians.
MMIWG2S+ National Action Plan
The National Action Plan Vision
We envision a transformed Canada where Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people, wherever they are, live free from violence, and are celebrated, honoured, respected, valued, treated equitably, safe, and secure.
The 2021 Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ People National Action Plan was co-developed by a core working group in collaboration with the National Family and Survivors Circle and contributing partners. The National Action Plan is a response to the Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and the Métis Perspectives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and LGBTQ2S+ People and developed to drive transformative change to end systemic racism and violence against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people, wherever they are.
National Family and Survivors Circle
What is the National Family and Survivors Circle
The establishment of NFSC was supported by Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada as part of its response to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry’s Calls for Justice 1.1, which calls on all governments to develop and implement a National Action Plan (NAP) with Indigenous partners to address violence against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people.
The NFSC is made up of Indigenous women and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people who are the family members of missing or murdered Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people and who are survivors of gender and raced based violence. We come from diverse Indigenous communities, backgrounds, strengths, and capabilities. As families and survivors, we agreed to participate in this process with the assurance our lived experience, expertise, and agency would guide the identification of strength based best practices and actions to be included in the NAP.
