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Recommendation 5:
Adequate, sustained, and long-term funding to ensure the provision of culturally relevant services to meet the needs of Indigenous women and girls at risk of violence or in contact with the police and justice system, including emergency shelters, court workers, services for survivors of violence and specific programs to assist women and girls who have been trafficked within Canada.
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- Access to justice ,
- Alternative solutions ,
- Courts ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Economic inequality ,
- Emergency response ,
- Gender-based violence ,
- Human rights system ,
- Indigenous issues in policing and justice ,
- Missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit, and LGBTQ2SIA+ people ,
- Policing ,
- Policing and the criminal justice system ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Public services ,
- Racism ,
- Sexism
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Recommendation 408:
Address the social and economic factors that lead to Indigenous women’s extreme vulnerability to violence
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Recommendation 416:
Aboriginal leadership with the financial support of the government needs to create workshops and conferences for Aboriginal community members, workers and leaders that that are directed towards family violence, including sexual violence. Family violence, personal safety (prevention), and sex education are also a necessity that needs to be delivered in Aboriginal schools. (p.19)
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Recommendation 1:
A commitment to address violence against Indigenous women and girls on the basis of the protection and full realization of their human rights as set out in Canadian law and international human rights standards, including the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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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 459:
[A national] plan of action should include:…The collection and routine publication of gender disaggregated data on health and social and economic conditions for Inuit, Metis and First Nations women and men, including rates of violence against Indigenous women; (p.26).
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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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Recommendation 2:
‘Coming of age’ ceremonies for Indigenous children and youth, and ensuring that education regarding consent and safety begins in pre-school and carries on through adulthood
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