2026-05-27 from cbc.ca

Nearly four years after finding at least 22 Indigenous women that had gone through forced sterilization in Quebec, a group of researchers now says that number is much higher — and they're asking the government to take its report seriously.

In 2022, the researchers at the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscaminque (UQAT) collected the testimonies of 35 First Nation and Inuit women as part of the first phase of a report that looks into obstetric and gynecological violence — including imposed sterilizations — endured by Indigenous women.

The 22 cases of imposed sterilizations documented in the research's first phase took place between 1980 and 2019.

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