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Prevention
Feb
$5.5 million from crime proceeds funds crime prevention
Friday, February 10th, 2012Richmond – As a drug-trafficking helicopter, houses, cars and cash seizures add up to a record year for B.C.’s civil forfeiture program, government is granting $5.5 million of the proceeds to support local crime prevention efforts throughout the province in 2011-12.
The new grant funding will support projects that reduce youth involvement in gangs, prevent violence against women and children, and further crime prevention. The new funding is possible due to exceptional growth in the civil forfeiture program’s proceeds. Year to date, civil forfeiture has taken in $10.8 million – more than double the $4.8 million in all of 2010-11, and more than is needed to sustain the self-funding program.
All grant funds will be paid out by March 31. Details of application processes will be available on Feb. 10 at: www.pssg.gov.bc.ca/crimeprevention/grants/
To read more visit the NationTalk website.
Dec
Culture as Treatment Symposium
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011Aboriginal Health Circle Forum of Champlain LHIN and Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health are pleased to present a two-day Mental Health and Addictions Symposium in the Culture as Treatment Series.
Traditional Aboriginal concepts of wellness are deeply embedded in a holistic approach focusing on the health of the body, mind, heart and spirit. Recovery may involve many different paths integrating both western and traditional approaches to mental health and wellness.
Speakers and facilitators will introduce, educate, and provide an environment to learn about the cultural approaches to healing and wellness. Through discussions and workshops, you’ll discover ways of integrating Aboriginal Culture into Western treatment models. You will walk away in beauty.
Symposium dates: February 9th and February 10th in Ottawa, Ontario
For further information or to register visit the Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health website.
Dec
UN will conduct Inquiry on Behalf of Aboriginal Women
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011UN Will Conduct Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women in Canada
(Ottawa) The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has decided to conduct an inquiry into the murders and disappearances of Aboriginal women and girls across Canada. The Committee, composed of 23 independent experts from around the world, is the UN’s main authority on women’s human rights. The Committee’s decision was announced today by Jeannette Corbiere Lavell, President of the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC), and Sharon McIvor of the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA).
The inquiry procedure is used to investigate what the Committee believes to be very serious violations of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. In January and in September 2011, faced with the continuing failures of Canadian governments to take effective action in connection with the murders and disappearances, FAFIA and NWAC requested the Committee to launch an inquiry. Canada has signed on to the treaty, known as the Optional Protocol to the Convention, which authorizes the Committee to investigate allegations of “grave or systematic” violations of the Convention by means of an inquiry. Now that the Committee has formally initiated the inquiry, Canada will be expected to cooperate with the Committee’s investigation.
“FAFIA and NWAC requested this Inquiry because violence against Aboriginal women and girls is a national tragedy that demands immediate and concerted action,” said Jeannette Corbiere Lavell. “Aboriginal women in Canada experience rates of violence 3.5 times higher than non-Aboriginal women, and young Aboriginal women are five times more likely to die of violence. NWAC has documented the disappearances and murders of over 600 Aboriginal women and girls in Canada over about twenty years, and we believe that there may be many more. The response of law enforcement and other government officials has been slow, often dismissive of reports made by family members of missing women, uncoordinated and generally inadequate.”
For additional information and to view the UN backgrounder press releases, visit the NationTalk website.
