December 6th is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
December 6th is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
This day was established by the Parliament of Canada to mark the anniversary of the murders of 14 young women at l'École Polytechnique de Montréal, in 1989.
These women died because they were women.
Femicide is the systematic and deliberate killing of women and girls and it's happening worldwide.
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The story of Daleen Kay Bosse, a young mother and university student who disappeared on her way to a conference in Saskatoon. Daleen's parents search for her, travelling back and forth across western Canada and wondering why it took so long for police to take the disappearances of aboriginal women seriously enough to investigate them properly.
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