Reports & research
A literature review (100 reports)
- The National Inquiry's Consolidated Literature Review of Reports relating to Violence Against Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA PeopleSOURCE: National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
SUMMARY: An Excel document. Lists and summarizes 100 different reports, including those by Canadian federal and provincial governments, community organizations and professional associations.
Select reports, studies, databases, lists & mapping projects
SOURCE: Native Women's Association of Canada
SUMMARY: "This database will serve as a centre of information to map these crimes and to begin to show the scale of this crisis. As Safe Passage evolves, this data can be a tool for research and a solid base for future inquiries and actions. We have created an interactive map and data visualizations to display MMIWG cases across Canada, sourced from CBC's publicly available data and information submitted to Safe Passage."
Listed from most recent
- Review of Reports and Recommendations on Violence Against Indigenous Women in CanadaSOURCE: researchers Pippa Feinstein and Megan Pearce
SUMMARY: February 2015. This document summarizes various reports and their recommendations. - Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women: 2015 Update to the National Operational OverviewSOURCE: Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 2015.
SUMMARY: This report concluded that 1181 Indigenous women or girls were murdered or went missing between 1980 and 2012. - Invisible Women: A Call to Action. Report of the Special Committee on ViolenceSOURCE: Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women, Parliament of Canada. 2014.
- An Awkward Silence: Missing and Murdered Vulnerable Women and the Canadian Justice SystemSOURCE: researcher Maryann Pearce, 2013.
SUMMARY: A PhD dissertation To conduct the research Pearce created a database with the names of 3329 missing or murdered women in Canada - 824 of whom could be identified as Indigenous. The list of names is included in this document. - Forsaken: The Report of the Missing Women Commission of InquirySOURCE: British Columbia Government, 2012.
SUMMARY: "The Missing Women Commission of Inquiry considered the police investigations into women reported missing from the Downtown Eastside as well as a decision to stay charges against Robert W. Pickton for the assault of a sex trade worker." Also known as "the Opal Report." - What Their Stories Tell Us: Research findings from the Sisters In Spirit initiativeSOURCE: Native Women's Association of Canada, 2010.
- Stolen Sisters: A human rights response to discrimination and violence against Indigenous women in CanadaSOURCE: Amnesty International, 2004.