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 4: Implement independent civilian oversight of officials responsible for responding to and investigating violence against Indigenous women. Ensure that administrative, disciplinary, or criminal measures are available to hold such officials accountable when officers are found to have failed to act on reports of missing women or to have carried out biased or inadequate investigations of violence against Indigenous women.-
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- Access to justice ,
- Courts ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Gender-based violence ,
- Health, wellness and services ,
- Human rights system ,
- Indigenous issues in policing and justice ,
- Missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit, and LGBTQ2SIA+ people ,
- Policing ,
- Policing and the criminal justice system ,
- Sexism
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Recommendation 11:
End the criminalization of people who use or possess small amounts of illicit substances.
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Recommendation 12:
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
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Recommendation 136: As in other jurisdictions, prohibit the police from carrying and using all lethal weapons. Even in the most escalated scenario, there is no justification for a police-involved lethal shooting.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
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Recommendation 137: Eliminate the use of VPD restraint devices such as the hobble restraint device, and end the use of police dogs as weapons.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
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Recommendation 138: Eliminate searches and monitoring of Indigenous women and girls by male police officers.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
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Recommendation 139: Immediate independent investigation into the VPD practice of street checks with the goal of ending street checks.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
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Recommendation 140: Reduce the number of bylaw infraction tickets issued by VPD in the DTES.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
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Recommendation 141: Develop guidelines to facilitate greater use of police discretion not to lay charges especially for minor poverty-related offences.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
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Recommendation 142: Ensure that that all policing practices conform to the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act.-
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