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Access to justice
Recommendation 6:
PUBLIC EDUCATION—efforts to raise public awareness about consent and sexual assault, options for survivors, the risks and benefits of reporting, and the steps in the justice system’s process
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Recommendation 60:
Provide mandatory training to ensure all practitioners providing legal aid are trained in trauma-informed, culturally safe practises that include power analysis and gender-based violence training.
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Recommendation 3:
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES IN HANDLING SEXUAL ASSAULT CASES—changes to justice system professionals’ decision-making practices and communication with survivors
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Recommendation 164:
Prioritize funding to train Indigenous legal advocates, court workers, and lawyers including through increased funding and capacity for Indigenous court worker programs and initiatives under the Indigenous Justice Program.
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Recommendation 6:
One of the most valuable ways in which judicial perspectives could be sought as to the level of education and training received across Canada, would be through an in-depth consultation that would identify fundamental flaws within the Canadian legal system (see Martinson & Jackson, 2016). Consultations should include members of the Indigenous legal community, who are best placed to speak to the needs of Indigenous children in Canada (CBA, 2020).
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Recommendation 7:
Lobby the provincial government to add “social condition” as a protected ground in BC’s Human Rights Code, as recommended by the Office of the Human Rights Commissioner.
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Recommendation 157:
Legislation should require Gladue factors to be used as mitigating factors only, unless the victim is an Indigenous woman in which case her wishes should take precedence over an offender.
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Recommendation 160:
Increase Indigenous women’s Access to justice by extending funding to guarantee all Indigenous women have access to full legal aid for criminal and civil legal matters including family, criminal, mental health, and poverty legal aid.
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Recommendation 62:
Increase funding to the Human Rights Tribunal to stop extensive delays and restore service levels.
Recommendation 61:
Increase funding for family law legal aid, raise the income cut-off for eligibility, and significantly increase the number of hours available per case.
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