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 to keep Indigenous families together in the DTES
Accountability
Recommendation 131: Require that all child welfare decision makers and courts must mandatorily consider the impact of the residential school experience on children and their caregivers.-
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Recommendations to keep Indigenous families together in the DTES
Accountability
Recommendation 132: An independent and external process for complaints, oversight, and accountability for MCFD neglect investigations, decisions to apprehend children, and for deaths of children and youth in government care.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Recommendation 133: All levels of government must recognize the inherent and constitutionally protected right of Indigenous people to establish and control Indigenous justice systems. All levels of government must also fund the establishment of Indigenous law institutes to support the restoration and advancement of Indigenous legal systems.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Recommendation 134: Redirect growing municipal, provincial, and federal police and prison budgets towards solutions that increase safety for Indigenous women such as more housing, child care, income, healthcare, mental health and addictions services, and healing supports.-
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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 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
Policing
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
Policing
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
Policing
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
Policing
Recommendation 140: Reduce the number of bylaw infraction tickets issued by VPD in the DTES.-
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