The RCMP have released what they call their most comprehensive account to date of Canada's missing and murdered aboriginal women, which shows aboriginals are over-represented in stats of missing and murdered women.
The Mounties say they worked with Statistics Canada and almost 300 policing agencies to produce the National Operational Overview on Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women, released Friday at RCMP D Division headquarters in Winnipeg.
Since 1980 the rate of women who are victims of homicide has trended down, except in the case of aboriginal women which has increased, the report states.
Earlier this month, officials confirmed that there are 1,181 police-recorded incidents of aboriginal homicides and unresolved missing women investigations over the past three decades — a much higher number than previously thought.
Key findings in the report:
- Of the 1,181 investigations, 1,017 are aboriginal female homicide victims between 1980 and 2012 and 164 women are considered missing.
- Currently, there are 225 unsolved cases: 120 are homicides, 105 are missing or foul play suspected.
- Aboriginal women make up 16 per cent of all murdered women on record, five per cent of all murders on record, 11.3 per cent of all missing women on record.
Aboriginal women most likely to be murdered by an acquaintance (30 per cent), spouse (29 per cent), or family member (24 per cent).
As a whole, more than 90 per cent of indigenous female murder victims knew their killer, RCMP said.
Michèle Audette, president of the Native Women's Association of Canada, was anxious to see the report's recommendations.
She believes the lobbying for a national inquiry prompted the RCMP to begin working on the report.
"And from that, it's going to be a political tool. It's going to help the social movement out there [that] is pushing for justice and equity," she said.
For years, members of Canada's aboriginal community have been raising awareness of the issue and calling on the federal government to hold a national inquiry.
The Conservative government has refused to call an inquiry to date, referring instead to initiatives carried out over the years to combat violence against women and girls.
Derek Nepinak, grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, said the RCMP report is a step in the right direction.
"It's not the full step," he said.
"The full step needs to be a full public inquiry. But it is an intermediate step, and it does raise the spectre of concern that, you know, there is a much bigger issue out there."
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