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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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
Recommendation 135: Implement the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action on Justice for Indigenous Peoples.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Policing
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 157: Legislation should require Gladue factors to be used as mitigating factors only, unless the victim is an Indigenous woman in which case her wishes should take precedence over an offender.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Access to justice
Recommendation 159: Fund an Indigenous legal clinic in the DTES that can support Indigenous women in all legal matters and provide regular legal education workshops.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Access to justice
Recommendation 160: Increase Indigenous women’s Access to justice by extending funding to guarantee all Indigenous women have access to full legal aid for criminal and civil legal matters including family, criminal, mental health, and poverty legal aid.-
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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 to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Access to justice
Recommendation 164: Prioritize funding to train Indigenous legal advocates, court workers, and lawyers including through increased funding and capacity for Indigenous court worker programs and initiatives under the Indigenous Justice Program.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Access to justice
Recommendation 166: Implement existing recommendations of the Aboriginal Justice Implementation Commission.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Access to justice
Recommendation 167: Implement existing recommendations in Justice Reform for British Columbia by Community Legal Assistance Society, Pivot Legal Society, West Coast LEAF, and B.C. Civil Liberties Association.-
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