There are some 600 missing and murdered women in Canada.
Oh wait. Six hundred missing and murdered First Nations and Metis women. Their numbers are by far the highest, when it comes to counting up missing and murdered women in this country.
It's hard to believe, when you don't know any of them or their families personally. It's all too easy to think "These things don't happen to me or the women I know." Consider yourself fortunate, then, that you haven't lost a friend or a sister this way, or your mother or daughter.
The Red Dress Project attempts to make the public aware of the extremely high incidence of violence against Aboriginal women here. The artist collects donated red dresses and hangs them in public places.
Right now the project is at the University of Regina.
Read more: http://www.ammsa.com/publications/windspeaker/red-dresses-there-just-not-there
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReginawelcomesREDressProject
