If you're from Canada and you read the news at all then you're definitely aware of this story.

https://becauseits2015.wordpress.com/2019/06/08/male-disposability-and-canadas-mmiw-inquiry/

But for people from other countries, in Canada over the past few years there's been an enormous amount of attention given to the issue of "missing and murdered Indigenous women (and girls)" (MMIW) due to the fact that they're a lot more likely than non-Indigenous women to be murdered or go missing. Indigenous men are barely mentioned by politicians, activists, or reporters, even though they're even more likely than Indigenous women to be murdered or go missing. The coverage and attention is so lopsided that it's not even clear the extent to which they're even aware about the numbers for Indigenous men, or whether they are aware and they just take it for granted that women's safety is more important.

The government even initiated a $92 million public inquiry (with an additional $10 million for commemoration of MMIW cases), which recently released its full report. I read the executive summary, and it makes a lot of very very strong claims about the situation faced by Indigenous women (“violence experienced by Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people amounts to genocide”) and it continually refers to them being "targeted" and "disproportionate" victims of violence, without much/any reference to their male counterparts.

Has anyone else read any of the report, or noticed the news coverage? What do you think? Is there any justification for the strong focus on women to the exclusion of men, or does this demonstrate male disposability?