Sentences with phrase «indigenous women at the time»

Saunders» health crisis comes three years after the high - profile murder of her older sister, Loretta, a masters student in Halifax who was working on a thesis about missing and murdered Indigenous women at the time.

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Kim Stanton says the experience of sexual assault victims and violence against indigenous women entered the public consciousness much more during her time at LEAF.

Justice Camp asked the complainant, an Indigenous woman who was 19 years old and homeless at the time of the alleged assault, «Why couldn't you just keep your knees together?»

Indigenous women also began organizing on a national scale at this time.

«My colleagues and I at the Commission are delighted that, for the first time, an Indigenous woman has been officially appointed to become the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner,» said Commission President, Professor Gillian Triggs.

Indigenous women also find it difficult to access the private rental market at the best of times, and time spent in prison only exacerbates the difficulties.

Examples of projects such as Karinga Hostel in Adelaide and the Corrections Housing Pathways Initiative in Victoria demonstrate that creative, cost effective approaches can be adopted which are consistent with the right to housing and which overcome the practical difficulty of the relatively small numbers (in absolute terms) of Indigenous women exiting prison at any one time.

As at March 2004, Indigenous women were imprisoned nationally at a rate 20.8 times that of non-Indigenous women.

For the June 2002 quarter, Indigenous women were over-represented at 19.6 times the non-Indigenous rate compared to Indigenous men at 15.2 times.

Campbell has established a successful women's committee at the Indigenous settlement in Alice Springs that has overseen a drop in violent incidents in the short time it has been operating.

During the federal election happening at the same time, she helped push the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls to the forefront of political discussion.

In December 2002, Indigenous women were incarcerated at a rate 20 times that of non-Indigenous women [23].

There is a consistent pattern indicating that incarcerated Indigenous women have been victims of assault and sexual assault at some time in their lives.