National Inuit women’s org stays the course on reducing abuse, violence – Nunatsiaq News

May 14, 2015

“As long as we’re needed, we’re going to keep working at it”

OTTAWA — Following its latest annual general meeting, Pauktuutit, Canada’s national Inuit women’s organization, remains committed to reducing abuse, violence and the sexual exploitation of Inuit women and children across the Canadian Arctic and southern Canada.

“As long as we’re needed, we’re going to keep working at it,” Pauktuutit’s president, Rebecca Kudloo of Baker Lake, said in her opening statement at the gathering, held May 12 and May 13 inside a small board room upstairs from their office on Nicholas St. in downtown Ottawa.

It’s the first annual general meeting they’ve held since their 30th birthday celebration in March 2014.

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