NWAC Announces Family Gathering in Ottawa, Ontario

January 26, 2012 (Ottawa, ON) – The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) will be convening its 6th annual family gathering to support and hear first-hand the experiences of those families who have lost a woman or girl through violence and who are missing and/or have been murdered.

The NWAC has worked with families of missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls since 2004 with the Sisters In Spirit (SIS) which was primarily a “research, education, and policy initiative” that ended on March 31, 2010. This work has evolved, moving forward with the Evidence to Action (ETA) project. The ETA project is designed to move these issues from the research phase into the action phase with a focus on the development of tools and resources to enable communities, educators, stakeholders, police and victim services, and the justice system to better respond to experiences of violence faced by Aboriginal women and girls.

To read more about the upcoming Family Gathering, please visit www.nwac.ca

 

 

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