AMNESTY CANADA | Action Postcard Sample

Dear Jane Smith.
John Smith has sent you this action appeal from Amnesty International.

Stop violence against Indigenous women in Canada


The lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women are honoured at a powwow in St. Catherines, Ontario, September 2004.

"Families like mine all over Canada are wondering how many more sisters and daughters we have to lose before real government action is taken." - Darlene Osborne speaking at the launch of Amnesty International's new report, Stolen Sisters: A Human Rights Response to Violence against Indigenous Women in Canada

In the last three decades, two young women in Darlene Osborne's family have been abducted and murdered on the streets of Canadian cities.

Amnesty International believes Canadian officials action must act now so that other families won't have to endure such suffering and loss.

Please add your name to our electronic petition.

To The Honourable Anne McLellan Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness: I am deeply concerned about violence against Indigenous women in Canada. I urge the federal government to take the following steps as a matter of priority:

Ensure adequate, sustained, multi-year funding to culturally appropriate services such as shelters and counselling, needed to prevent violence against Indigenous women.
Provide adequate funding for comprehensive national research on violence against Indigenous women, including the creation of a national registry to collect and analyze statistical information from all jurisdictions.
Ensure full implementation of outstanding recommendations of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, which address poverty and social marginalization of Indigenous people in Canada, as has repeatedly been urged by United Nations treaty bodies.

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