SSW136 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Canadian Human Rights Act, Mercury Poisoning, Asubpeeschoseewagong First Nation
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Rights act as they protect people from discrimination in areas of provincial and territorial jurisdiction, such as restaurants, stores, schools, housing and most workplaces: the government has not addressed the systematic poverty, housing, water, sanitation, Indigenous peoples: primarily the inadequate access to clean, safe, drinking water. 2016, a confidential report made public in ontario noted that provincial officials were told back in the 1990s: despite promises to clean up the mercury-infested river with an million pledge in. 2017, the attempts have been inadequate: while indigenous women only make up to 4. 3% of the female population, they account for 16% of the total female homicides and 11. 3% of missing women in the country. In 2015, the inter-american commission of human rights affirmed that racial discrimination and socio-economic marginalization were root causes of the violence. In september, canada joined a successful dutch-sponsored initiative at the un human.
