Six principles for a just recovery

Put people’s health and well-being first. No exceptions

Recommendation 1: Health is a human right and is interdependent with the health and well-being of ecological systems.

Six principles for a just recovery

Strengthen the social safety net and provide relief directly to people

Recommendation 2: Focus relief efforts on people – particularly those who are structurally oppressed by existing systems.

Six principles for a just recovery

Prioritize the needs of workers and communities

Recommendation 3: Support must be distributed in a manner consistent with Indigenous sovereignty, a climate resilient economy and worker rights, including safe and fair labour standards and a right to unionize. Improved conditions for essential service workers must be maintained beyond this crisis.

Six principles for a just recovery

Build resilience to prevent future crises

Recommendation 4: We cannot recover from the current crisis by entrenching systems that will cause the next crisis.

Six principles for a just recovery

Build solidarity and equity across communities, generations, and borders

Recommendation 5: In a globalized world, what happens to one of us affects all of us.

Six principles for a just recovery

Uphold Indigenous Rights and work in partnership with Indigenous Peoples

Recommendation 6: A just recovery must uphold Indigenous rights and include full and effective participation of Indigenous Peoples, in line with the standard of free, prior and informed consent.