Photo: Inuit women prepare for MMIW inquiry

By NUNATSIAQ NEWS

Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada has been hosting a meeting in downtown Ottawa all week to talk about creating an Inuit-specific process for participating in the upcoming national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women. Participants, including members of families who have lost mothers, daughter, nieces, or cousins, met privately Feb. 9 and Feb. 10. On Feb. 11, Pauktuutit opened the process up and delegates are now discussing recommendations for the inquiry, likely to be completed by Feb. 12, when the organization hopes also to present a proposed action plan on family violence in Inuit Nunangat. Read more later on Nunatsiaqonline.ca. (PHOTO BY JIM BELL)


Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada has been hosting a meeting in downtown Ottawa all week to talk about creating an Inuit-specific process for participating in the upcoming national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women. Participants, including members of families who have lost mothers, daughter, nieces, or cousins, met privately Feb. 9 and Feb. 10. On Feb. 11, Pauktuutit opened the process up and delegates are now discussing recommendations for the inquiry, likely to be completed by Feb. 12, when the organization hopes also to present a proposed action plan on family violence in Inuit Nunangat. Read more later on Nunatsiaqonline.ca. (PHOTO BY JIM BELL)

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