Gerri Sharpe, president of the Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada. Photo: Submitted by Pauktuutit

In April 2022, Gerri Sharpe, a human-rights advocate and president of the Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada, stood before members of the United Nations in New York and told the international delegates that Inuit women working in Canada’s resource extraction industries suffer from sexual harassment and violence at an alarming rate.