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At an Assembly sitting on Monday, Feb. 28, Great Slave MLA Katrina Nokleby questioned the minister responsible for the status of women, Caroline Wawzonek, about the GNWTSA国际影视传媒檚 strategy for combating sexual violence.
In her opening statement, Nokleby recounted an experience she had had the previous weekend: That Saturday evening, she said, she received private online messages from SA国际影视传媒渟omeone who wanted to meet me.SA国际影视传媒�
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Nokleby said this was not the first time she had received such messages since taking office.
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In response to questions from Nokleby about services that are offered to victims or potential victims, Wawzonek said the Status of Women Council of the NWT offers a service to residents that helps them create a safety plan to leave a dangerous relationship. She said the council is working on distributing this information to all 33 communities in the territory, as well as on social media.
Wawzonek acknowledged that many victims may not want to approach the with their stories, saying these victims could instead pursue civil actions.
Nokleby also asked what was being done to address sexual violence in the territory given the fact that small communities of the kind found in the territory are at higher risk for incidents of sexual violence.
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