Vigil calls for more government action to reduce violence against Indigenous women [Video]

Chanel Charette, who died Sept. 26 after being struck by a vehicle, was honoured during a vigil for Indigenous women on Parliament Hill. Her father Marcel Charette says her family plans to keep her close even after her death.

The government must do more to reduce violence against Indigenous women, advocates said Friday at a Sisters in Spirit Vigil on Parliament Hill to commemorate missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and gender-diverse people.

This marks 20 years since Amnesty International published its Stolen Sisters Report, which argued that poor record keeping made it impossible to accurately quantify the disproportionate levels of violence Indigenous Canadian women experience.

Indigenous advocate Bridget Tolley, right, holds a pan of burning sacred medicine at a ceremony on Parliament Hill on Oct. 4, 2024, to commemorate missing and murdered Indigenous women (Emma Weller/CBC)

“We’ve been asking for truth, accountability and justice here on Parliament Hill for 20 years. I think this is enough,” event organizer Bridget Tolley …

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