Document Tag: Indigenous racism

Letter to Ministers: Sexual Exploitation and Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Re: Sexual Exploitation and Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Dear Ministers, We are writing to commend you on the launch of the National Inquiry and to call your attention to the link between sexual exploitation and missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. We ask that the causes and consequences of gendered, racialized […]

Lettre aux ministres : Exploitation sexuelle et disparition et meurtre de femmes et de filles autochtones

Objet : Exploitation sexuelle et disparition et meurtre de femmes et de filles autochtones Mesdames les Ministres, Permettez-nous de vous féliciter du lancement de votre enquête nationale et d’attirer votre attention sur le lien entre l’exploitation sexuelle et la disparition et le meurtre de femmes et de filles autochtones. Nous demandons que soient examinées et […]

Canadian Council of Churches 1944-1997: Indian Residential Schools and First Nations Affairs

Prepared by Kevin Parra Duque Religion in the Public Sphere Service-Learning Internship, University of Toronto

A Brief to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child: Aboriginal Children and Youth – Urgent Needs and Unmet Obligations

The Ad Hoc Coalition on the Rights of Aboriginal Children in Canada On the release of Canada’s Second Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), and in anticipation of the CRC’s review of Canada’s compliance to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, two national ecumenical coalitions joined […]

Call to Reflection: Aboriginal Land Rights – A Jubilee Challenge Facing Canada

In Canada, one particular area in our national life cries out for healing and transformation: now is the time for a change inthe relationship between the majority society and Aboriginal peoples.

Letter from Canadian Church Leaders: Right Relationship with Aboriginal Peoples

As we turn our hearts to God in the first year of a new century, as we seek to listen with our hearts to what God is saying in our time and place, we are promised a word — even a world — of peace. It is a glorious promise, challenging us to hope (all […]