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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Access to justice
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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- Access to justice ,
- Alternative solutions ,
- Courts ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Housing and homelessness ,
- Human rights system ,
- Indigenous issues in policing and justice ,
- International human rights ,
- Policing ,
- Policing and the criminal justice system ,
- Poverty ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Public education and reconciliation ,
- Public services
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Correctional facilities
Recommendation 174: End the placement of Indigenous women in solitary confinement in all prisons, and establish an independent external review of all Indigenous women in segregation placements.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Correctional facilities
Recommendation 179: Implement existing recommendations in the Report of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women, A Call to Action: Reconciliation with Indigenous Women in the Federal Justice and Correctional Systems.-
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Recommendations for Indigenous women’s wellness in the DTES
Culturally safe healthcare
Recommendation 185: End the coerced sterilization of Indigenous women, and hold health professionals criminally responsible for acts of coerced sterilization.-
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Recommendations for Indigenous women’s wellness in the DTES
Expanded health services
Recommendation 205: Ensure that people with mental health and/or substance use-related disabilities have a means to enforce their human rights related to accessing and maintaining their housing and employment.-
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Recommendations for Indigenous women’s wellness in the DTES
Expanded health services
Recommendation 206: Replace the deemed consent provisions of the Mental Health Act and the consent override provisions of the Healthcare (Consent) and Care Facility (Admission) Act and the Representation Agreement Act with a legislative mechanism that protects and respects the patient’s autonomy in making healthcare decisions and allows the patient to include trusted family members and friends in their treatment and recovery process.-
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Recommendations for Indigenous women’s wellness in the DTES
Expanded health services
Recommendation 207: Create legislative standards regulating the use of isolation in mental health facilities and the use of physical, mechanical, environmental, and chemical restraints against mental health patients to ensure compliance with Charter rights.-
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