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Nearly 4,000 indigenous women have gone missing or murdered in this country

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Nearly 4,000 indigenous women have gone missing or murdered in this country

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Every year in November, people in the canadian town of Pas, Manitoba, always think of a name – Helen.

Nearly 4,000 indigenous women have gone missing or murdered in this country

Helen Betty Osborne Monument

Helen, An Aboriginal Girl of Canada. One night 50 years ago, the 19-year-old girl was violated and brutally murdered. Although the attackers were locked down as early as 1972, it was a full 16 years before justice came due to flaws in the police investigation.

Over the past 50 years, the number of Aboriginal female victims in Canada has been increasing at an extraordinary rate: Tina Fontaine, Renell Harper, Jennifer Katchway, Samantha Fidler, Shirley May...

Data show that Indigenous Canadian women are 12 times more likely to disappear or be murdered than other groups and 16 times more likely than white women!

Shocking crimes have exposed the threats, injustices and indifference to Indigenous Peoples in Canada.

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Nearly 4,000 indigenous women have gone missing or murdered in this country

Director system 丨 Qian Wei Wang Shanshan

Producer 丨 Geng Zhimin

Producer 丨Han Renwei

Editor-in-chief 丨 Peng Yuqi

Choreographer 丨Yao Yiting

Clip 丨 Jin Zhao Tu Xueya

Vision 丨Zhao Shuai Huang Zijun Gao Lingxiao

Co-ordinator 丨 Yang Bo

Translation 丨 Xu Fei

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