Hundreds walk in Victoria B.C. to end gender-based violence in Canada | 24CA News
Hundreds of individuals got here collectively in Victoria on Thursday for the twelfth annual Moose Hide Campaign Walk.
The stroll is held to name consideration to gender-based violence in Canada with occasions held nationwide.
According to information from Statistics Canada, 44 per cent of ladies reported experiencing some type of intimate accomplice violence for the reason that age of 15.
For Indigenous ladies, that quantity is far larger, at 61 per cent.
“This is a very important day,” Palexelsiya (Lorelai Williams), informed Global News on the march. “We have to keep raising awareness of this issue because our Indigenous women and girls are still going missing and being murdered at a high rate so any awareness is something we really need.”
Palexelsiya mentioned many individuals have been calling for a state of emergency to deliver consideration to lacking and murdered Indigenous ladies.
Tatyanna Harrison, Chelsea Poorman, and Noelle ‘Elli’ O’Soup have been all discovered useless final 12 months within the Lower Mainland.
Palexelsiya mentioned this simply exhibits how lacking and murdered Indigenous ladies and ladies are nonetheless going lacking and dying at the next price.
She mentioned Canada first must take care of the racist insurance policies and legal guidelines nonetheless in place earlier than any actual change can occur.
“So that can be a huge step,” Palexelsiya added. “Even just trying to get there would be a tiny one.”
Organizers mentioned in a launch that greater than 400,000 Canadians from coast to coast to coast signed up to participate within the day’s occasions nearly and in individual.
One of the cornerstones of the marketing campaign is the pin, which is worn by people who find themselves dedicated to talk out in opposition to gender-based and home violence.
“There’s a lot of work left to do, there’s a lot of work,” Raven Lacerte, one of many Moose Hide Campaign co-founders mentioned.
“Violence is happening every single day to our most precious ones in this country and so for every moose hide pin (it) represents at least five conversations about ending violence towards women and children and with more than four million pins out there that’s more than 20 million convos that are happening about ending violence towards women and children.”
Anyone affected by the problem of lacking and murdered Indigenous ladies, ladies and 2SLGBTQI+ individuals needing assist can name a nationwide toll free disaster line at 1-844-413-6649.
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