In 2019, the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre published the report entitled “RED WOMEN RISING: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside” and written by Carol Muree Martin (Nisga’a – Gitanyow) and Harsha Walia. This report is the first comprehensive project with Indigenous women survivors in the DTES figuring at the very centre of community research, rather than as a secondary statistic.
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Experiences of violence
Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Access to justice
Recommendation 163: Expand funding for community-based and court-based victim services.-
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Recommendations for Indigenous women’s wellness in the DTES
Culturally safe healthcare
Recommendation 184: An Indigenous Health and Wellness Centre in the DTES and more Indigenous run health programs that use Indigenous methods and medicines to address physical, mental, sexual, emotional, and spiritual harms.-
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