‘Treated like garbage’: inside Canada’s silent Indigenous femicide crisis | AFP [Video]

“They are treated like garbage,” says Gladys Radek, “Just dispose of them anywhere. Nobody will care,” she adds as she walks alongside western Canada’s infamous “Highway of Tears” to the site where Alberta Williams was found dead in 1989. The 69-year-old activist advocates for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) in Canada, in the hopes of giving voice to victims of Canada’s silent indigenous femicide crisis. Indigenous women account for around a third of femicide victims in Canada, while they only make up 5% of the country’s female population.

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