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UN to investigate violence against Aboriginal women in Canada

Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Originally published January 9, 2012.

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In Canada, unsolved cases of missing and murdered indigenous women are growing. Recently, the United Nations announced that it will initiate an inquiry procedure. Indigenous leaders have long called on authorities to look into the ongoing problem. FSRN’s Aaron Lakoff has the story from Montreal.