GC42 Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women (GC42 2015-050)

That the 42nd General Council (2015) direct the General Secretary, General Council to: 

1. Call upon the Government of Canada to: 

   1. Conduct a full Public Inquiry into the more than 1200 cases of missing or murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada; 

   2. Support and continue to support the struggle against the devaluation of women by conducting this inquiry; 

2. Call upon churches and ministries of The United Church of Canada to at least annually remember Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women through education, and in our prayers, in particular on the Sunday immediately prior to October 4, the date of the cross-Canada Sisters in Spirit Vigil; 

3. Urge individuals to participate in the Sisters in Spirit Vigil on October 4; 

4. Urge congregational members to contact their Member of Parliament to voice support for a National Public Inquiry; 

5. Call upon the Government of Canada and all levels of governance to put resources towards the implementation of the 16 recommendations made by the Special Committee on Violence against Indigenous women. 

    

GC42 2015 ROP, pp. 185-186, 450