Torn From Our Midst

We have just released a very important book on this subject. It is called: Torn from our Midst.

Please visit:http://cprcpress.ca/publications/Torn-from-Our-Midst for more information.

Here is a little bit about the book:

The anger, grief, courage, compassion, and hope we hear in these voices inspire and compel us -- to remember those who are missing and to work for healing and justice. Since 1980, more than 520 Aboriginal women have been reported missing or murdered in Canada. From 1993-2003, 370 women were murdered in Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico. Since 2001, more than 2,000 Guatemalan women and girls have been brutally murdered. Responding to the profound tragedy inherent in these statistics, more than 300 women and men gathered in August 2008 at a conference entitled Missing Women: Decolonization, Third Wave Feminisms, and Indigenous People of Canada and Mexico. Here, personal stories and theoretical tools were brought together, as academics, activists, family members of missing and murdered women, police, media, policy-makers, justice workers, and members of faith communities offered their perspectives on the issue of racialized, sexualized violence.