Report details current understanding of violence against Native Hawaiian women and girls.



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*New Report Available on Missing and Murdered Native Hawaiian Women and Girls *

: Missing and Murdered Native Hawaiian Women and Girls Task Force Report

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs [ [link removed] ] and the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women [ [link removed] ] have published the ?Missing and Murdered Native Hawaiian Women and Girls Task Force Report [ [link removed] ].? This is the first of a two-part report on violence against Native Hawaiian women and girls.

Key findings include:


* Native Hawaiian women and girls experience violence at rates disproportionate to their population size.
* More than a quarter of missing girls in Hawaii are Native Hawaiian.
* The average profile of a missing child in Hawaii is a Native Hawaiian 15-year-old female.
* Hawaii has the eighth highest rate of missing persons in the United States.


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