The Government of Canada Supports Kingston Aboriginal Women's Committee

CCNMatthews Newswire;  March 3, 2008 ;     421 words ......Minister of Canadian Heritage, Status of Women...the Kingston Aboriginal Women's Committee...phase of the Aboriginal Women's Leadership program funded by Canadian Heritage. This funding...through the Aboriginal Women's Community...Department of ...

Violence against aboriginal women in Australia: possibilities for redress...

Albany Law Review;  March 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ......greater urgency. The violence to which Aboriginal women are subjected has reached epidemic...3) The problem of violence against Aboriginal women incorporates an array of factors...analysis of the issue of violence against Aboriginal women, because it involves an interplay...

Alarming rates of HIV/AIDS for Canada's Aboriginal women; NATIONAL...

Canadian Women's Health Network;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...ABORIGINAL WOMEN ARE GREATLY OVER-REPRESENTED IN...PROGRAMS AND SERVICES TO SUPPORT THEM. Aboriginal women are the caregivers of their communities...recognize their responsibility to Aboriginal women and begin to provide the Aboriginal...

Healthy Living and Aboriginal Women: The Tension between Hard Evidence and...

Centres of Excellence for Women's Health Research Bulletin;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Two narratives define Aboriginal women and healthy living: hard evidence...conditions that aggravate Aboriginal women's health have to be weighed...Ultimately, "healthy living" for Aboriginal women depends, to a great extent...

Jacobs fatality inquiry will hear from Aboriginal women

Alberta Sweetgrass;  February 28, 1999 ;     653 words ......inquiry will hear from Aboriginal women Recommendations will...for the Advancement of Aboriginal Women at the Connie and Ty...called Violence against Aboriginal Women. "We have to get attention...

Aboriginal women's perspective on self-government.

Canadian Dimension;  November 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Contrary to what some might espouse about Aboriginal women and their place (or lack of place...the political realm, traditionally Aboriginal women occupied a place in which their opinions...with the onslaught of colonialism, Aboriginal women's autonomy, independence and ...

ABORIGINAL WOMEN TOO OFTEN THE VICTIMS OF RACIALIZED, SEXUALIZED VIOLENCE

Canadian Women's Health Network;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......alarmingly high numbers of missing, murdered Aboriginal women in Canada THE NATIVE WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION...STATE OF AFFAIRS REGARDING THE SAFETY OF ABORIGINAL WOMEN IN CANADA. ALTHOUGH ABORIGINAL WOMEN REPRESENT ONLY 3% OF THE CANADIAN POPULATION...

MANITOBA GOVERNMENT: Aboriginal Women's Forum receives funding -- Newman.

M2 Presswire;  May 13, 1999 ;     301 words ......PRESSWIRE-13 May 1999-MANITOBA GOVERNMENT: Aboriginal Women's Forum receives funding -- Newman...to assist in hosting the Spirit of Aboriginal Women Elders Forum and Gathering this summer...grandmothers, clan mothers and other Aboriginal women together and help them reclaim their...

Domestic abuse of Aboriginal women exposed: After an indigenous leader was...

The Christian Science Monitor;  July 5, 2001 ;     700+ words ......out there every day. Abuse against Aboriginal women has been one of modern Australia's...convicted of rape in the past. That Aboriginal women have been suffering abuse at much...a 1994 study in Western Australia, Aboriginal women are 45 times more likely to be victims...

Minobimadziwin: The Good Life for Aboriginal Women

Centres of Excellence for Women's Health Research Bulletin;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......has long been established that, on the whole, Aboriginal women in Canada do not enjoy good health. The Aboriginal Women's Health Research Synthesis Project of 2001 reported that Aboriginal women are characterized by a health profile one would...

"Watch the white women fade": aboriginal and white women in the Northern...

Hecate;  May 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ......hostility they often showed towards Aboriginal women.(1) More recently young women studying...relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women, have been puzzled by the dearth of...comment about the hostility shown to Aboriginal women by white women needed further ...

NSW: Aboriginal women fastest growing jail population

AAP General News (Australia);  August 8, 2003 ;     404 words ...00-00-0000 NSW: Aboriginal women fastest growing jail population...Miranda Korzy SYDNEY, Aug 8 AAP - Aboriginal women were the single fastest growing...The report into the needs of Aboriginal women in custody, Speak Out Speak Strong...

"Racism, Sexism and Colonialism: The Impact on the Health of Aboriginal...

Resources for Feminist Research;  March 22, 2006 ;     126 words ......Colonialism: The Impact on the Health of Aboriginal Women in Canada. Canadian Woman Studies...how the political oppressions that Aboriginal women experience such as poverty, low status...tying it to the external pressures Aboriginal women currently face. The fight for change...

Report shows 67 per cent of Aboriginal women overweight

Alberta Sweetgrass;  February 1, 2008 ;     506 words ......meals are the main reasons why young Aboriginal women are more likely to become overweight...citing two-thirds, or 67 per cent, of Aboriginal women in a study group were considered overweight compared to 55 per cent of non-Aboriginal women. Among those who were overweight...

Aboriginal women considered to be overweight

Saskatchewan Sage;  February 1, 2008 ;     494 words ......meals are the main reasons why young Aboriginal women are more likely to become overweight...citing two-thirds, or 67 per cent, of Aboriginal women in a study group were considered overweight compared to 55 per cent of non-Aboriginal women. Among those who were overweight...