Diem Saunders (formerly Delilah Saunders; born 1991 or 1992; died September 7, 2021) was an Inuk writer and activist from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, who advocated for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
Saunders and their family came to prominence following the murder of their sister Loretta Saunders in Halifax in 2014, an incident which led to renewed public concern into the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada. The family testified at hearings for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in 2017.
In 2016, concerns about the environmental impacts of a planned hydroelectric power project at Labrador's Muskrat Falls on Indigenous communities led to protests, during which Saunders and other activists joined a nearly two-week hunger strike started by local artist Billy Gauthier. Gauthier ended the strike following an agreement between the provincial government and leaders in Labrador's Indigenous community, which established an expert advisory committee. Saunders received Amnesty International's Ambassador of Conscience Award the following year. Later in 2017, Saunders experienced liver failure and was denied placement on a waiting list for a liver transplant because of Ontario's six-month alcohol abstinence requirement for the procedure. Subsequent criticism by Saunders led to a nationwide discussion over the policy.