WHEREAS, in 2013 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) released a report that accounted for incidents of missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada; and

WHEREAS, the report demonstrated an over representation of missing and murdered Aboriginal women among Canada’s population; and

WHEREAS, the first nations women of Canada are at a greater risk for violence than non-first nation people; and

WHEREAS, the homicides of Aboriginal women have remained relatively constant while non-Aboriginal women homicides have been in decline; and

WHEREAS, over the past thirty years in Canada there has been over 1,181 incidents of Aboriginal women homicides and unresolved missing persons cases; and

WHEREAS, this indicates a lack of care in regards to the safety and assistance of Canada’s aboriginal population; and

WHEREAS, aboriginal women are left extremely vulnerable in Canada to gratuitous violence; and

WHEREAS, both aboriginal and non-aboriginal women homicides are categorized as other assault and sexual assault; and  

WHEREAS, both non-aboriginal and aboriginal women victim’s perpetrators are 89% males; and

WHEREAS, this suggest the hypersexualization of the bodies of indigenous women and a lack of support is why aboriginal women are more likely to be murdered and go missing; and

Let it be resolved, that ASUCI denounces the violence projected on the indigenous people of Canada with grave emphasis on Aboriginal women; and

Let it be resolved, that ASUCI denounces the hyperseuxalization of aborginal women that leds to sexual assaults, missing persons cases and murders; and

Let it further be resolved, that ASUCI encourages the continued efforts of social interventions and protection to prevent mass murdering among the indigenous people in Canada; and

Let it be finally resolved, that ASUCI urges RCMP to utilize the data to create awareness, and improve current prevention efforts to decrease these horrendous numbers.

Work Cited: 

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/pubs/mmaw-faapd-eng.pdf