TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Marion THIBAUT, "'We are not trash': Horrors suffered by Canada's Indigenous women"
A memorial marks the site where the remains of Alberta Williams were found in 1989, on Highway 16, the "Highway of Tears," near Terrace, British Columbia, Canada, on April 30, 2024. The "Highway of Tears" in British Columbia is a stark monument, activists say, to the many ways Canada has failed Indigenous women. Since the 1960s, as many as 50 women -- and a few men -- have vanished along this 725-kilometer (450-mile) highway linking Prince Rupert, on the Pacific Coast near Alaska, to Prince George. (Photo by Sebastien ST-JEAN / AFP)