Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/quoteofday/2010/08/201083018253280225.html

On the International Day of the Displaced, activists say fate of hundreds of missing indigenous women must be examined. The Canadian government has not lived up to its responsibilities to stop disapperances, critics say. As human rights activists around the world marked the International Day of the Disappeared by focusing on Peru, Iraq, Nepal and Mexico, Leslie Spillett sat in her office in Winnipeg, contemplating the fate of more than 500 indigenous women who have disappeared in Canada. The violence, primarily targeting young women from disadvantaged backgrounds over the past three decades, is "truly appalling" according to Amnesty International and, say human rights groups, has not been properly addressed by security forces in one of the world's richest countries.