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Indigenous Peoples
Recommendation 10:
We recommend that legislation require any placements in observation cells for the purpose of monitoring prisoners at risk of self-harm or suicide be authorized by independent registered mental health professionals, with reasons provided to the prisoner and their legal representative. Such placements must not exceed six hours and must be imposed only at treatment centres.
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Recommendation 6:
Increase the training for and number of lawyers available to support Indigenous Peoples in bringing human rights complaints, with an emphasis on Indigenous lawyers.
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Recommendation 3:
Increase the number of Indigenous Peoples at all levels of the BCHRT, including staff, tribunal members and contractors.
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Recommendation 2:
Advocate to add Indigenous identity as a protected ground to the Code. Current grounds of discrimination under the Code (including based on race, colour, ancestry or religion) do not adequately address the discrimination Indigenous Peoples report experiencing. This would send a message of inclusion and reflect the individual and collective nature of Indigenous human rights.
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Recommendation 1:
Broaden the concept of human rights to incorporate international human rights principles as reflected in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and Indigenous legal traditions, in the Code and BCHRT operations and practice.
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Recommendation 2:
1. MCFD is to have completed policy and planning by April 1, 2022 and have completed full implementation of that plan in the ensuing 18 months.
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Recommendation 120:
1. Legal Aid family lawyers representing abused aboriginal…women must also have expertise in aboriginal…law as required. (p.2)
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Recommendation 119:
1. Increase the number of funded aboriginal-specific victim support programs in areas with high aboriginal populations. In rural areas, consider aboriginal satellite programs or aboriginal Outreach workers attached to programs serving the general population. (p.4)
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Recommendation 114:
[To implement the Royal Commission on Aboriginal People and the United Nations human rights treaty bodies’ recommendations that relate to “poverty and social marginalization of Indigenous peoples in Canada”]…the Canadian government needs to work with Aboriginal women to work towards solutions to stop the violence and include them in any policy discussions that will directly affect them…(p.19)
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Recommendation 337:
[All non-governmental…and governmental services should] Provide specialized training on the needs of women with disabilities, elderly women, Aboriginal women, Inuit women, immigrant women, women of colour and refugee women; on the power imbalance and trust inherent in any relationship between a service provider and a client; and on feminist intervention skills. (p.39)
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