Our Components’ IIC sites
- BCGEU Equity and Human Rights Committee
- HSABC Indigenous Circle
- SGEU Indigenous Committee
- MGEU Equality and Human Rights Committee
- OPSEU/SEFPO Indigenous Circle (web page)
- OPSEU/SEFPO Indigenous Circle (Facebook)
- NSGEU Human Rights Committee
- NAPE Anti-Racism Committee
Resources
- NUPGE’s policy paper Justice for Indigenous People
- Candian Labour Congress’ Indigenous Rights and Justice Resource Centre
- First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada
- HSABC’s Confronting Racism with Solidarity: An analysis of the 2020 HSA Workplace Racism Survey
- HSABC’s Discrimination in the Workplace: Findings from HSA’s Survey on Inclusion and Belonging
- Women of the Metis Nation – Les Femmes Michif Otipemisiwak Métis Perspectives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and LGBTQ2S+ People
- Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada’s National Inuit Action Plan on Missing and Murdered Inuit Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ People
- OPSEU/SEFPO’s Social Mapping Project
- Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission Reports
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