SNIWWOC's Mandate

The Support Network for Indigenous Women and Women of Colour (SNIWWOC) has the following mandate:

- To work against the cultural, political, economic, and structural constraints that limit women's access to health care and full reproductive choice

- To protect the health and human rights of women by organizing around issues of reproductive justice

-To mobilize indigenous women and women of color around our lived experiences by bringing these women together and organizing and mobilizing to affect change. 

-To provide education for indigenous communities and communities of colour centered around reproductive justice

- To organize women and girls to challenge structural power inequalities surrounding reproductive justice in a comprehensive and transformative manner

At the moment, we carry out our mandate through education and advocacy

SNIWWOC works under the approach that women’s lives are intersectional. Intersectionality is the way different aspects of a person’s identity, such as age, gender, race, class, nationality and sexuality, combine to define and shape an individual. The overlaps in identity can affect the way people interact with others, how they form relationships, how they view themselves and society, how society views them.

View the bios of board members here