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The rate Missing and Murdered Indigenous Woman in disproportionality high in Canada in comparison to other missing and murdered woman in Canada. Currently there has been “1017 aboriginal female homicide victims between 1980-2012. Of all these cases 225 of them have gone unsolved”(Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women: A National Overview,2014). There are various factors in which play some type of contribution to The rate Missing and Murdered Indigenous Woman extreme high rates in Canada. This paper will address The rate of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women is disproportionately high in Canada. What factors contribute to this? The main factors that contribute to the higher rates of the missing and murdered indigenous women are are Representation …show more content…

The death rates for Indigenous Women are statistically a lot higher than non-indigenous woman. On average the rates for missing and murdered women have been growing since the 1980’s.”The Indigenous community makes up less than five per cent of the population in Canada, but accounts for 32 per cent of all suspects accused of murder. In Manitoba and Saskatchewan, it's an astounding 74 percent and 80 per cent, respectively. (The relative percentages for murders committed by Aboriginal women are even higher, but come from much smaller absolute numbers.)”(Scott Gilmore,2016). The rates of missing and murdered woman are astronomically high. Considering all the factors, Indigenous people make up a small percentage of Canada’s population but seem to have the highest rates of homicide. The astonishing thing of it all, is they are six times more likely to be a victim of homicide, than other Canadians. No one is willing to address the issue of the rising rates of missing and murdered woman and by day to day they keep rising and no one is addressing the epidemic. Indigenous Peoples’ are pretty much set up for failure, from they day they are born, because they are faced with so many barriers, with no resources to help them overcome them. Therefore there higher death rates caused by the lack of awareness and people being taken advantage of by people in there own country and becoming a victim of violence and …show more content…

As we can see without a doubt there are many reasons on why the rate for missing and murdered woman is so high, and this is driven by a variety of factors.We must address the next steps in which we must take in order to try to figure out how we can lower the rates of missing and murdered woman in canada. Some of the next steps that would be beneficial is implementing an intervention plan and increasing public awareness. Such as introducing more projects such as the Red Dress initiative to put a image to the missing and murdered woman. This paper will addressed The rate of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women is disproportionately high in Canada. What factors contribute to this? The main factors that contribute to the higher rates of the missing and murdered indigenous women are are Representation in Media ,Causes of Death/Rates of Death, Trend in the Proportion of

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