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"HUMAN RIGHTS Canada's Lost Women An investigation into the abuse and exploitation of aboriginal women in Canada and the authorities' failure to stop it. 10 Jun 2015 15:03 GMT | Human Rights, Women, Canada, US & Canada, Law  1145  2531 Canada's aboriginal women make up a small fraction of its population, yet for decades they have suffered disproportionally from abuse, exploitation and murder. Since the 1980s, over 1,000 indigenous women have been murdered in this developed North American nation, yet, according to campaigners and human rights groups, too few of these cases have resulted in arrests or prosecution. Amid mounting claims of official indifference to the problem that some say has its roots in racism and the country's colonial past, People & Power asks why police and the government are not doing more to tackle crimes against Canada's first nation females."

"This week we found out that this was not to be the case. The opening paragraph of the TRC Report leaves little room for interpretation: For over a century, the central goals of Canada's Aboriginal policy were to eliminate Aboriginal governments; ignore Aboriginal rights; terminate the Treaties; and, through a process of assimilation, cause Aboriginal peoples to cease to exist as distinct legal, social, cultural, religious and racial entities in Canada. The establishment and operation of residential schools were a central element of this policy, which can be best described as 'cultural genocide.'"