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 for Indigenous women’s wellness in the DTES
Recommendation 181: Strengthen all the social determinants of Indigenous women’s health by ensuring access to and governance over land, culture, language, housing, child care, income security, employment, education, and safety.-
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Recommendations for Indigenous women’s wellness in the DTES
Culturally safe healthcare
Recommendation 190: More doctors and nurses, and especially more Indigenous healthcare professionals.-
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Recommendations for Indigenous women’s wellness in the DTES
Culturally safe healthcare
Recommendation 192: Opportunities for urban Indigenous women to learn traditional and land-based healing practices and develop peer-based holistic health support programs and activities such as regular opportunities to go canoeing, pick medicines, and harvest foods.-
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