In January 2020, the BC Human Rights Tribunal published a report after hearing from 100 Indigenous people about how they experience the justice system. The report explains how the current system fails them and the need to work collectively towards greater justice through open dialogue, incorporating Indigenous legal definitions of human rights and mechanisms for ensuring fairness and freedom from discrimination.
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Coordinating human rights responses across jurisdictions
Recommendation 21: The BCHRT should discuss with the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) a coordinated process for sorting jurisdictions between the federal and provincial bodies when Indigenous Peoples bring a human rights complaint. An agreement to triage claims between the CHRC and BCHRT would assist Indigenous complainants.-
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