Mino-Mnaamodzawin: Achieving Indigenous environmental justice

What does environmental justice mean to Indigenous Peoples? How can it be achieved? These are two foundational questions being addressed by the Indigenous Environmental Justice (IEJ) project, a research initiative since 2015 by Osgoode and EUC Professor Deborah McGregor funded by the Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program as well as by the Social Sciences &

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Environmental Justice for Me‚tis Women & Youth as HIV Prevention

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) This initiative explored how M‚etis women and youth understandings of 'place' (as a social determinant of health) impacted on their ability to exercise sexual and reproductive health rights that created conditions of vulnerability to HIV. Researcher: Sarah Flicker and Jessica Yee (Native Youth Sexual Health Network) Project Theme: Indigenous

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