Actions and Commitments: Call to Action # 41
Exploring Stakeholder: "Government of Québec"
Updates on this page: 18
(Filtered by Indigenous Group "First Nations")
June 3, 2024
Assembly of First Nations (AFN) Marks the Fifth Anniversary of National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) with Progress Report on the Implementation of the Calls for Justice
NationTalk: – Unceded Algonquin Territory, Ottawa, Ontario) – Today, on the fifth anniversary of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) Final Report, the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) released a new progress report evaluating the advances made in implementing the National Inquiry’s 231 Calls for Justice. “Preventing violence against...
November 9, 2022
National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence a significant step towards gender equality
Pictou County, Nova Scotia – Women and Gender Equality Canada Living a life free from violence is a fundamental human right, but gender‑based violence (GBV) continues to be a significant barrier to achieving gender equality in Canada. It is one of the most pervasive, deadly, and deeply rooted human rights violations of our time. Federal,...
December 16, 2021
Funding Increase
CISION – Québec government is increasing the funding for the 2021-2022 call for projects – Sexual, domestic and family violence in Indigenous contexts by $6 million. This raises the total investment for this initiative from $5.4 million to $11.4 million. Launched last August, this call for projects has four objectives: 1. Prevent and counter sexual...
December 3, 2021
Tracking Bracelets
Québec Native Women – Recommendations on making tracking bracelet for offenders and victim of domestic violence more effective for Indigenous women: • How will it work in small communities where offender and victim live in close proximity • How can it be adjusted to work in communities with poor cellular coverage • How will police...
June 3, 2021
Funding to address domestic violence
$28.5M over 5 years for programs to address domestic violence: $10 million has been allocated to help support prevention and intervention services in the field of domestic and family violence in Nunavik. $9.8 million will be made available to Indigenous police forces to meet specific needs connected with domestic and family violence $6 million for the implementation of...
January 27, 2021
Researchers report on how Montréal police responded to crisis of MMIWG
NationTalk – A team of researchers from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) have collaborated with Quebec Native Women to examine how the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) responded to the crisis of MMIWG in Montreal? From these potential solutions, several concrete actions have been identified and these must be undertaken...
December 8, 2020
Response to Calls to Justice 20 and 21 of the MMIWG Report on Québec
Québec government directly responds to Calls to Justice 20 and 21 from the MMIWG Supplementary Report on Québec by tabling a draft Act to authorize the communication of personal information to the families of Indigenous children who went missing or died after being admitted to an institution. 20. WE CALL UPON the Quebec government to...
December 4, 2020
Funding to adapt police intervention towards victims of domestic violence
$18M funding to finance a set of measures intended to better adapt police intervention to the realities of Indigenous communities, in particular when it comes to women who are victims of domestic violence or sexual assault. Funding includes: $1.2M to combat the sexual exploitation of Indigenous women and girls and countering all forms of sexual...
March 12, 2020
2020-21 Budget investments
$200M over 5 yrs Investments from Quebec’s 2020-21 budget to implement initiatives that will support Indigenous women and girls and improve access to services that are culturally adapted and thus meet the needs of Indigenous people. The Regroupement des centres d’amitié autochtones du Québec (RCAAQ) believes that the Government of Québec will consider the observations...
October 17, 2019
Commitment to implement recommendations of the Viens Commission
The Gouvernement du Québec is strengthening its collaboration with First Nations and Inuit by making a commitment to work together to implement the recommendations from the Viens Commission and the National Inquiry into MMIWG....
August 10, 2018
Special unit created to investigate Indigenous complaints against police
Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes (BEI) CISION – Québec Ministry of Public Security confirming the establishment of a special unit, including certain additional measures, within the Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes (BEI), which function will be to investigate any complaint alleging criminal acts towards a First Nation member committed by a police officer in Québec. These new measures will come...
March 26, 2018
First Nations Forum on Sexual Assault
128 delegates from First Nations across the province of Québec. Organized in partnership by Québec Native Women (QNW) and the First Nations of Québec and Labrador Health and Social Services Commission (FNQLHSSC), the objective of this forum is to define an action plan to fight the cycle of sexual violence within First Nations by supporting...
March 22, 2018
Underfunding of First Nations Policing
AFNQL intends to demonstrate that the treatment of First Nation public safety, which among others results in the underfunding of police forces, confirms that security in our communities does not get the same consideration as that of non-native citizens. First Nation Policing is still recognized as a program, not an essential service as they claim....
October 23, 2017
Québec Native Women lose government funding
Announces that it will no longer be represented by its lawyers at the hearings of the Public Inquiry Commission due to financial realities limiting the organization’s access to legal expertise and the continued refusal of funding bodies in the Quebec government to ensure their access to legal representation....
May 28, 2017
May 28, 2017
Quebéc Native Women Open call for Indigenous women to participate in the Public Inquiry that starts in Val D’Or on June 5, 2017...
December 21, 2016
Mandate of Viens Commission
Public Inquiry Commission on relations between Indigenous Peoples and certain public services in Québec: listening, reconciliation and progress Mandate will be to investigate more broadly the discrimination in the administration of public services towards the members of the Indigenous Peoples of Québec. The following public services are targeted: police, correctional, legal, health and social services,...
December 21, 2016
Role of the Viens Commission
Quebec government established the “Public Inquiry Commission on relations between Indigenous Peoples and certain public services in Québec: listening, reconciliation and progress” in order to investigate, consider the facts and recommend concrete and effective corrective measures to be implemented by the Government of Québec and Indigenous officials. https://www.cerp.gouv.qc.ca/index.php?id=3&L=1...
August 17, 2016
Demand for provincial inquiry into police abuse
Ensure the inquiry focuses on the situation Indigenous communities encounter with Québec public services, particularly with police forces and health and social services as well as educational institutions. Indigenous organizations also demand a provincial inquiry into police abuse given the alleged sexual assaults against indigenous women at Val-d’Or....
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