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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Legislative reform to reduce Indigenous women’s manufactured vulnerability
Recommendation 8: End the policing practice of street checks; reduce the number of bylaw infraction tickets issued by police in the DTES; prohibit police from carrying and using all lethal weapons; develop guidelines to facilitate greater use of police discretion not to lay charges especially for minor poverty-related offences; and end the counter-charging and criminalization of Indigenous women who defend themselves or their children.-
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Legislative reform to reduce Indigenous women’s manufactured vulnerability
Recommendation 9: Commit to using non-incarceration and alternative measures especially for minor offenses committed by Indigenous women. Governments must also provide sufficient and stable funding to Indigenous communities and organizations to provide alternatives to incarceration including community-based rehabilitation, diversion, community courts, and restorative justice methods geared towards Indigenous women.-
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Legislative reform to reduce Indigenous women’s manufactured vulnerability
Recommendation 10: Repeal laws that criminalize or increase harm for Indigenous women in the sex trade.-
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End the criminalization of people who use or possess small amounts of illicit substances.
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End the criminalization of homelessness by eliminating bylaw infractions and criminal charges for sleeping or tenting in public spaces, and end the displacement of tent cities.
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Immediate services needed in the DTES
Recommendation 23: Fund an Indigenous legal clinic in the DTES that can support Indigenous women in all criminal and civil legal matters including but not limited to family, criminal, mental health, and poverty law issues.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Policing
Recommendation 136: As in other jurisdictions, prohibit the police from carrying and using all lethal weapons. Even in the most escalated scenario, there is no justification for a police-involved lethal shooting.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Policing
Recommendation 137: Eliminate the use of VPD restraint devices such as the hobble restraint device, and end the use of police dogs as weapons.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Policing
Recommendation 138: Eliminate searches and monitoring of Indigenous women and girls by male police officers.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Policing
Recommendation 139: Immediate independent investigation into the VPD practice of street checks with the goal of ending street checks.-
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