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 end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Policing
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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Recommendation 143: All police forces should implement Sex Work Enforcement Guidelines similar to those in Vancouver that support the safety of sex workers in police interactions.-
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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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Recommendation 145: Make it easier to file a police complaint and establish an independent civilian watchdog that conducts investigations of reported incidents of serious police misconduct, including allegations of police violence and sexual assault. Increase liability for the misconduct of police officers to include criminal charges.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
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Recommendation 146: Allow the provincial Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner to initiate its own systemic investigations or hearings, and shift investigations of misconduct within the jurisdiction of the Police Complaint Commissioner to investigations directly by the Commissioner.-
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Recommendation 147: Implement existing recommendations by Human Rights Watch in Those Who Take Us Away: Abusive Policing and Failures in Protection of Indigenous Women and Girls in Northern British Columbia, Canada.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Legal and judicial reform
Recommendation 148: End the counter-charging and criminalization of Indigenous women who defend themselves or their children from abuse and violence.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Legal and judicial reform
Recommendation 149: Repeal all mandatory minimum prison sentences for non-violent offences. Implement legislation to allow trial judges to depart from mandatory minimum sentences and restrictions on the use of conditional sentences.-
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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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