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I will be working on the missing and murdered Indigenous women 's page. I am hoping to elaborate on the highway of tears section and potentially add information on high profiled cases.

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

CBC created a project to further investigate the stories of some of the missing and murdered indigenous women. This database was launch in response to the criticism of the investigation of many of these women, which CBC found suspicious details about how investigations were conducted. The interactive database includes the stories of over 250 women .

Indigenous women in Canada face many risk factors, compared to non-Indigenous women. Such as poverty, prostitution and violence. These factors can be traced back to government policies, that have led to many economic and social issues within Indigenous communities . In Victoria, British Columbia, the Indigenous population is estimated to be 2% but Indigenous women represent over 15% of prostitutes.

Highway of Tears in the over 700 kilometre stretch between Prince Rupert and Prince George

Many people hitchhike along this stretch of highway, because of lack of public transit. The highway of tears has led to initiatives by the British Columbia government to dissuade women from hitchhiking, such as billboards along the highway warning women of the potential risks

Project E-PANA was launched in 2005, in response to the Highway of Tears crisis. It originally, took responsibility of the investigation of 9 women, launching a task force in 2006. In 2007 added an additional 9 cases, which includes both cases of murdered and missing women along highways 16, 97 and 5. The task force consists of over 50 investigators and cases include those from the years 1969 to 2006.