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Women and gender diverse people


Climate justice

Recommendation 7: Prioritize UNDRIP, Indigenous sovereignty, and gender equality in all climate change related policy planning.


Equity

Recommendation 10: Address the needs of those most likely to be living in poverty and impacted by intersecting colonialism, racism, ableism, heterosexism, transphobia, and gender inequality.


Equity

Recommendation 12: Address the unique needs of systemically disadvantaged groups to access all services, including targeted measures to remove barriers to access and tailored supports.


Equity

Recommendation 17: Establish stand-alone pay equity and pay transparency legislation.


Equity

Recommendation 19: Implement investments and policies to target LGBTQIA2S+ poverty.


Equity

Recommendation 20: Implement a National Action Plan for Violence Against Women and Gender-Based Violence, and a provincial sexual assault policy, with mandatory training and increase investment in services and supports for those escaping domestic violence.


Equity

Recommendation 21: The BC Human Rights Commission to prioritize stigma-auditing areas of law and policy that most directly impact highly stigmatized populations including sex workers in areas such as:

  • Public space governance,
  • Income assistance and disability policy,
  • Housing policy and residential tenancy law,
  • Child welfare law and policy,
  • Policing law and policy,
  • Health policy related to mental health and substance use,
  • Privacy law as it relates to people who live in public spaces and people who are criminalized as a result of poverty and substance use.



Equity

Recommendation 22: Implementation of all recommendations in the following reports: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Call to Action, and Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.


Universal basic services

Child care

Recommendation 45: Consider the disproportionate impact of precarious labour within the child care sector on women and implement a provincial wage grid for early child educators to raise wages, and address recruitment and retention.


Universal basic services

Democracy and legal services

Recommendation 64: Apply a gender-based analysis lens (GBA+) to all legal aid funding in BC.


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