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West Coast LEAF and EVA BC withdraw from B.C.'s Missing Women Inquiry

Aug. 9, 2011 - The Ending Violence Association of BC (EVA BC) and West Coast LEAF (the Coalition) have withdrawn from the Missing Women Inquiry, citing the government's failure to provide funding for counsel for community groups (full letter below).

Inquiry Commissioner Wally Oppal granted standing to 13 community groups and recommended that these groups receive funding commensurate with their differing levels of participation. Commissioner Oppal found that the participation of these groups was necessary to the work of the Commission and that they required counsel in order to participate.

However, on July 22, Deputy Attorney General David Loukidelis confirmed the government's decision not to fund any of the 13 groups.

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Pamela Palmater

Murdered, missing and still excluded: Indigenous women fight for equality

By Pamela Palmater
| October 12, 2011

If there is one thing that the Pickton Inquiry has proven to Canadians is that gender discrimination against Indigenous women is not only a present-day phenomenon, but that it is systemic at all levels of government. The unique problem for Indigenous women is that the gender discrimination they face when dealing with one group, like the police, is multiplied many times over top of the gender discrimination they face in all other aspects of their lives. These Indigenous women who were murdered at the hands of Robert Pickton or who remain missing have never truly been treated as human beings worthy of care and protection.

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Krystalline Kraus

Activist Communique: Shut out of the Pickton inquiry

By Krystalline Kraus
| August 3, 2011

A British Columbia inquiry into the mishandling of the Robert Pickton police investigation is scheduled to begin in October of this year. Major concern has arisen from groups shut out of the inquiry for lack of government funding to participate.

The government inquiry was called to examine why police failed to catch serial killer Robert Pickton as he murdered sex workers and others from the Downtown Eastside, including many women who were First Nations. Pickton later confessed to killing 49 women abducted from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

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