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 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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Immediate services needed in the DTES
Recommendation 17: Fund more 24/7 low-barrier emergency shelters, transition homes, and drop-ins for women with long-term funding and full wrap-around supports. Also fund more Indigenous-centered and community-based, rather than police-based, victim services programs that provide holistic support including connection to land-based healing and guidance from elders.-
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Immediate services needed in the DTES
Recommendation 20: Expand non-policing options for publicly intoxicated people, including civilian-operated 24/7 sobering centres providing appropriate care for Indigenous women.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
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Recommendation 144: Expand non-policing options for publicly intoxicated people, including civilian-operated 24-hour sobering centres providing appropriate care for Indigenous women.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Legal and judicial reform
Recommendation 150: Repeal laws that criminalize or increase harm for women in the sex trade.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Legal and judicial reform
Recommendation 151: End the criminalization of people who use or possess small amounts of illicit substances.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Legal and judicial reform
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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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Legal and judicial reform
Recommendation 153: End transit fare evasion ticketing.-
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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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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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