Coerced Sterilization of Indigenous Women: Podcast
Listen to the podcast below to learn about forced and coercive sterilization of Indigenous women. Note: the podcast name was made up for the purpose of the assignment.
Sources
Avery Zingel, “Indigenous women come forward with accounts of forced sterilization, says lawyer” (18 April 2019) electronic source: < https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/forced-sterilization-lawsuit-could-expand-1.5102981>.
Brenda Gunn, “Legislation and Beyond: Implementing and Interpreting the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,” (2020) 53:4 UBC Law Review, forthcoming.
Cardinal v. Alberta, [2020] A.J. No. 1386.
Canada, National Inquiry, Reclaiming Power and Place: the Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. (Ottawa. 2019). Retrieved at: <https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/final-report/>.
Dr. Yvonne Boyer & Dr. Judith Bartlett, “External Review: Tubal Litigation in the Saskatoon Health region: The Lived Experience of Aboriginal Women” (2017).
“Forced Sterilization of Indigenous Women In Canada”, online: International Justice Resource Center < https://ijrcenter.org/forced-sterilization-of-indigenous-women-in-canada/>.
Karen Stote, An Act of Genocide: Colonialism and the Sterilization of Aboriginal Women (Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing, 2015).
Kristy Kirkup, “‘Deeply disturbed’: Health committee calls on feds to investigate forced sterilization” (6 August 2019) electronic source: < https://globalnews.ca/news/5733717/forced-sterilization-indigenous-women-canada/>.
M.R.L.P. v. Canada (Attorney General), [2018] S.J. No. 374.
M.R.L.P. v. Canada (Attorney General), [2020] S.J. No. 164.
Symenuk, P., Tisdale, D., Bourque Bearskin, D.H. & Munro, T. (2020). In Search of the Truth:
Uncovering Nursing’s Involvement in Colonial Harms and Assimilative Policies Five Years Post Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Witness: The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse, Vol 2(1), 84-96 https://10.25071/2291-5796.51.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 13 September 2007, A/61/L.67.
Julia Witmer is originally from Kitchener, Ontario. She is entering her final year at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University and completed her undergraduate degree in life sciences at Queen’s University. She is interested in the intersection between health, law, and policy – especially as it relates to food access, human rights, and income inequality. Julia has worked as an intern with the Halifax Regional Municipality (focused on food policy), a Research Assistant for Associate Professor Jamie Baxter and Assistant Professor Naiomi Metallic, and as a Summer Legal Intern with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). Upon graduation, she will be articling with Glenford Jameson.
