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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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
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Recommendation 147: Implement existing recommendations by Human Rights Watch in Those Who Take Us Away: Abusive Policing and Failures in Protection of Indigenous Women and Girls in Northern British Columbia, Canada.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Legal and judicial reform
Recommendation 148: End the counter-charging and criminalization of Indigenous women who defend themselves or their children from abuse and violence.-
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Recommendation 149: Repeal all mandatory minimum prison sentences for non-violent offences. Implement legislation to allow trial judges to depart from mandatory minimum sentences and restrictions on the use of conditional sentences.-
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Recommendation 150: Repeal laws that criminalize or increase harm for women in the sex trade.-
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Recommendation 151: End the criminalization of people who use or possess small amounts of illicit substances.-
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Recommendation 152: 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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Recommendation 153: End transit fare evasion ticketing.-
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Recommendation 154: Repeal the mandatory imposition of the victim fine surcharge and give judges the discretion to waive the fine for those unable to pay it.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
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Recommendation 155: Reform the drug treatment court process so as to not require a guilty plea to access the program.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Legal and judicial reform
Recommendation 156: Increase the ways in which failures to appear and other violations can be quashed early in the judicial process and take proactive steps to clear bench warrants for Indigenous women.-
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