- According to Indigenous activists, up to 3000 Indigenous women have gone missing or been murdered in Canada since 1980, with 500 cases outstanding in BC alone. The official number of cases according to NWAC and the federal government is 520. The discrepancy between these numbers can be attributed to a lack of funding for official forms of research.
-Two thirds of the 520 official cases were murders and one-quarter of them are unresolved disappearances.
-Over 300 of the official 520 cases are still unsolved.
-Roughly half of the official 520 murders and disappearances have occurred since the year 2000.
-Indigenous women in Canada are five times more likely than other women to die as the result of violence.
- 60% of known perpetrators are white men.
-According to research conducted by gang expert Michael Chettleburgh, 90% of the teenaged, urban prostitutes in Canada are Aboriginal.
- About 75% of Aboriginal girls under 18 have been sexually abused.
-Aboriginal women make up 3% of the Canadian population and over 30% of the female prison population.