Indigenous leaders say the country has yet to fully reckon with its troubled colonial past — or put a stop to a decades-long practice that is considered a type of genocide.

TORONTO (AP) — Decades after many other rich countries stopped forcibly sterilizing Indigenous women, numerous activists, doctors, politicians and at least five class-action lawsuits say the practice has not ended in Canada.

    • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      While they’re both unacceptable, one action is officially sanctioned by the state, the other is a private action deemed illegal and prohibited. This poster appears to dilute that distinction.