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Indigenous organizations
Recommendation 44:
Advocate, perhaps with the Office of the Human Rights Commissioner, Indigenous political organizations and legal advocacy organizations, for legal representation at the filing stage through to resolution, for Indigenous claimants.
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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 31:
Include Indigenous dispute resolution models, mediators and peacemakers in BCHRT mediation or settlement discussions. Consider use of co-mediation or joint processes involving Indigenous Peoples.
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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 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 29:
(d) Where parents and Nations have identied less disruptive measures, the CFCSA should direct the Ministry to provide prompt, clear, and written reasons for rejecting these less disruptive measures.
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Recommendation 30:
(b) Where the court determines that it is necessary to remove the child from the care of a parent or guardian, the court shall, before making an order, consider whether it is possible to place the child with a person or group in accordance with the order of preference of placements
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Recommendation 3:
‘Safe spaces’ where women and girls can get the support and resources they need – particularly in rural and remote communities where there may be a small policing complement, or where everyone knows everyone else; and,
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