This blog is worth the entire read. Please check it out as a follow up to the Violence and Native Women – An Epidemic and Deadly Combination blog posting I wrote on last week.
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International Commission Holds Historic Hearing on Violence Against Native Women in the U.S.– U.S. Officials and Native Advocates Agree Violence Must End
November 04, 2011 (Washington, DC) — During an historic hearing dedicated to their missing and murdered Native sisters throughout the Americas, Native women and tribal advocates resorted to an international human rights body to raise global awareness on the epidemic of violence against Native women in the United States. Representatives of the United States appearing at the hearing admitted that the level of violence against Native women is “an assault on the national conscience.”
“The right to be safe and live free from violence is a fundamental human right that many take for granted—but not Native women in the United States,” said Jana Walker, Director of the Safe Women, Strong Nations Project at the Indian Law Resource Center. “Through this unprecedented hearing—the first of its kind—the Inter-American…
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