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Recommendation 1:
5. Engage in proactive education with municipalities to ensure that zoning and regulatory bylaws, and related public consultation processes, do not discriminate based on social condition.
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Recommendation 43:
Develop a website using plain and easily accessible language to provide Indigenous Peoples with information and to guide them through stages of the application process. The website should feature case-based examples, specific to Indigenous Peoples; short videos to illustrate the BCHRT process; and a guide to help people through the BCHRT process.
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Recommendation 36:
Provide public education for Indigenous Peoples that complaints should be filed at the same time that a complainant is pursuing internal or informal processes because the BCHRT time limits are strict.
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Recommendation 37:
1. The Province of British Columbia must amend the Human Rights Code, RSBC 1996, c 210 to prohibit discrimination and harassment based on social condition.
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Recommendation 393:
[Feminist services should] have education workshops [for women with disabilities] to raise self-esteem, empowerment, and assertiveness. We should teach women where, how, when to get help – effective help that is immediate. (p.149)
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Recommendation 5:
Establish cultural knowledge/skills sharing hub that works off of UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003) Article 14(a), where each State Party shall endeavour, by all appropriate means, to: ensure recognition of, respect for, and enhancement of the intangible cultural heritage in society, in particular through: (i) educational, awareness-raising and information programmes, aimed at the general public, in particular young people; (ii) specific educational and training programmes within the communities and
groups concerned; (iii) capacity-building activities for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage, in particular management and scientific research; and (iv)non-formal means of transmitting knowledge.
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Recommendation 392:
…that girls and young women with disabilities have access to high quality sex-education materials and that, whenever and wherever possible, these materials be designed to take into account the needs of girls and women with every type of disability. (p.16)
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