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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Additions to the B.C. Human Rights Code
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Recommendation 1: Broaden the concept of human rights to incorporate international human rights principles as reflected in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and Indigenous legal traditions, in the Code and BCHRT operations and practice.-
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Recommendation 2: Advocate to add Indigenous identity as a protected ground to the Code. Current grounds of discrimination under the Code (including based on race, colour, ancestry or religion) do not adequately address the discrimination Indigenous Peoples report experiencing. This would send a message of inclusion and reflect the individual and collective nature of Indigenous human rights.-
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