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LGBTQ2SIA+
Recommendation 20:
Work to increase equity representation in CLC committees and on decision making bodies such as Canadian Council.
Islamophobia at Work: Challenges and Opportunities
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Canadian Labour Congress
Canadian Labour Congress
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2019
2019
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Recommendation 3:
While working towards its overall poverty reduction goals, the Government of Canada should endeavor to reach those furthest behind first. To this end, the Government of Canada should commit to reducing poverty by 50% in 2030 for marginalized populations, including Black populations, 2SLGBTQ people, Indigenous people, and persons with a disability. The Government of Canada should also specifically name and focus on Black populations, 2SLGBTQ people, Indigenous people, and persons with a disability within existing and new Government of Canada strategies, initiatives, and supports.
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Recommendation 402:
We recommend the Ministry of the Attorney General fund public education programs developed through local organizations to address violence against women. These programs should be sensitive to the social, cultural, and language needs of the multicultural population of British Columbia. These programs must also address the special needs of lesbians and women with disabilities who have been victims of violence. (p. 7 – 131)
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Recommendation 336:
We recommend police, Crown, victim services, and Corrections staff be given joint training in the dynamics of sexual assault, the physical and psychological impact of abuse upon the victim, and the need for a gender sensitive approach to these cases. This training should be standardized and delivered province-wide to ensure accountability. It should also address the special cultural, social and language needs of immigrant women, women of colour, aboriginal women, lesbians, and women with disabilities, and involved service providers and victims from the community as resource persons, wherever possible….(p.7 – 131)
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- Corrections ,
- Courts ,
- Culture and language ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Gender-based violence ,
- Health, wellness and services ,
- Indigenous rights and self-governance ,
- Policing and the criminal justice system ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Public services ,
- Representation and leadership
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Recommendation 3:
Upholding children’s rights requires the creation of an environment in which all children feel empowered to participate in legal proceedings that affect them, regardless of their circumstances
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Recommendation 7:
To be successful, a National Action Plan must be accompanied by adequate sustained funding to meet its goals as well as means to ensure accountability to Parliament and to the Indigenous women and their families who the plan would serve. Critically, such a plan should be developed in collaboration with Indigenous women’s organizations to ensure their full and effective participation in defining needs and solutions.
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- Access to justice ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Economic inequality ,
- Gender-based violence ,
- Health, wellness and services ,
- Human rights system ,
- Indigenous issues in policing and justice ,
- Indigenous rights and self-governance ,
- Missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit, and LGBTQ2SIA+ people ,
- Policing and the criminal justice system ,
- Poverty ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Racism ,
- Representation and leadership ,
- Sexism
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Recommendation 25:
Through Hate Crimes Accountability Units, build out methodologies for third-party reporting.
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Recommendation 16:
These issues are multi-faceted and many hold strong opinions. The commission will be well-placed to examine the various perspectives and considerations important to all stakeholders and, if appropriate, to make recommendations that will help advance these issues and our understanding of them.
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Recommendation 170:
There is an urgent requirement for comprehensive and informed Gender/Diversity Analysis as well as an equality analysis of [restorative justice issues]. This particular implications of these initiatives for ethnic/cultural communities and gay/lesbians/bisexuals should be identified and reviewed for the express purpose of ensuring these initiatives do not compromise the safety of members of these communities and in fact serve these communities well. As well, the implications of these initiatives for poor people, elderly people, and for people with disabilities have yet to be considered. (p.47)
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Recommendation 1:
The Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General and the Attorney General, working in full partnership with historically marginalized communities and communities with high levels of police interactions, must develop a set of guiding values and principles for policing in British Columbia that are grounded in human rights.
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