TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Marion THIBAUT, "'We are not trash': Horrors suffered by Canada's Indigenous women"
Gladys Radek (R), advocate for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Canada, and Lorna Brown visit the site where the remains of Mary Jane Hill were found in 1978, on Highway 16, the "Highway of Tears," near Terrace, British Columbia, Canada, on April 30, 2024. Radek, 69, describes how she began traveling the country "to tell the stories of all these women with broken destinies, to be the voice of these families, because they were silenced." Her dilapidated van is covered with photos of the missing. When she passes through local villages along the Highway of Tears, residents often stop her to talk. Her fight now takes her outside of Canada to conferences and demonstrations seeking to raise awareness of the women's plight. (Photo by Sebastien ST-JEAN / AFP)