To honour and to grieve all women abused and murdered by men

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls are victims of violence against Indigenous women in Canada and the United States, of those in the First Nations in Canada and Native American communities, but also amongst other Indigenous peoples, such as in Australia and New Zealand. A grassroots movement raises awareness of MMIWG through marches, protests, holding meetings, domestic violence training, building and maintaining records of the missing, and other informational sessions for law enforcement agencies. Activists from Indigenous communities in both the United States and Canada have tried to raise awareness of the connection between sex trafficking, sexual harassment, sexual assault, and the women and girls who go missing and are murdered. From 2001 to 2015, the homicide rate for Indigenous women in Canada was almost six times higher than that for other women. In Nunavut, Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and the provinces of Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan, this overrepresentation of Indigenous women and girls among homicide victims has been even higher, in part due to the larger Indigenous populations in these provinces and territories. In the United States, Native American women are more than twice as likely to experience violence as any other demographic. One in three Indigenous women are sexually assaulted during their life, 55.5% are violently assaulted by an intimate partner, 66.4% have experienced psychological aggression from an intimate partner, and 67% of assaults reported involve non-Indigenous perpetrators, while 70% of assaults go unreported. MMIWG has been described as a Canadian national crisis, and a Canadian genocide. In response to repeated calls from Indigenous groups, activists, and non-governmental organizations, the Government of Canada, under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, with the support of all ten provincial governments, established a National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in September 2016. According to the inquiry's backgrounder, "Indigenous women and girls in Canada are disproportionately affected by all forms of violence.