Guiding recommendations

Recommendation 4: Create education materials and training:

1. For Indigenous Peoples, about the Code and BCHRT processes;
2. Within the BCHRT, to develop cultural competency and safety among BCHRT staff and tribunal members;
3. For the general public, through a proactive campaign to highlight specific areas of discrimination faced by Indigenous Peoples.

Public outreach to Indigenous communities

Recommendation 17: Create a public education campaign for Indigenous Peoples which addresses human rights from an Indigenous perspective:

1. Make materials easily accessible at Band offices, Métis organizations, Friendship Centres, Indigenous political organizations, and universities.
2. Emphasize cases where Indigenous individuals have successfully brought human rights claims.

Micro-discriminations

Recommendation 20: The BCHRT, partnering with the Office of the Human Rights Commissioner, should create public education and awareness about micro-discriminations against Indigenous Peoples. The focus of the education would be to bring unconscious and pervasive bias to light so that it can be addressed.

Time limits

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.

Website

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.