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Coerced sterilisation of Canadian indigenous women in 70s widespread - researcher
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Coerced sterilisation of Canadian indigenous women in 70s widespread - researcher
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Tue, 1 Sep 2015
Author: Chris Arsenault
TORONTO, Sept 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The coercive sterilisation of indigenous women in Canadian health centres during the 1970s was more widespread than previously believed, with impoverished communities in the north disproportionately targeted, a researcher has found.
The Canadian government was often aware of the problem, but did not act to stop it, said Karen Stote, a women's studies professor at Waterloo, Ontario-based Wilfrid Laurier University who conducted archival research for a recently released study.
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Stote's study "An Act of Genocide: Colonialism and Sterilization of Aboriginal Women" is not the first to document the practice, but her research suggests the problem was more widespread than previously thought.
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Other sterilisation campaigns in Canada were linked to eugenics, the idea of racial superiority and the need to reduce certain traits from the population.
Indigenous people were targeted under that framework, Stote said, but the government also wanted to reduce their population to lessen the state's responsibilities under treaties it had signed with indigenous groups.
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(Reporting By Chris Arsenault, editing by Alisa Tang. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's rights, trafficking, corruption and climate change. Visit www.trust.org)
Coerced sterilisation of Canadian indigenous women in 70s widespread - researcher
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Tue, 1 Sep 2015
Author: Chris Arsenault
TORONTO, Sept 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The coercive sterilisation of indigenous women in Canadian health centres during the 1970s was more widespread than previously believed, with impoverished communities in the north disproportionately targeted, a researcher has found.
The Canadian government was often aware of the problem, but did not act to stop it, said Karen Stote, a women's studies professor at Waterloo, Ontario-based Wilfrid Laurier University who conducted archival research for a recently released study.
<snip>
Stote's study "An Act of Genocide: Colonialism and Sterilization of Aboriginal Women" is not the first to document the practice, but her research suggests the problem was more widespread than previously thought.
<snip>
Other sterilisation campaigns in Canada were linked to eugenics, the idea of racial superiority and the need to reduce certain traits from the population.
Indigenous people were targeted under that framework, Stote said, but the government also wanted to reduce their population to lessen the state's responsibilities under treaties it had signed with indigenous groups.
<snip>
(Reporting By Chris Arsenault, editing by Alisa Tang. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's rights, trafficking, corruption and climate change. Visit www.trust.org)