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First Nations governments
Recommendation 2:
All levels of Canadian government, national aboriginal organizations, and nonprofit agencies must ensure the active leadership of Indigenous women in the design, implementation, and review of programs and policies that are directed to increase the safety of Indigenous women. Strengthen and support solutions that restore the role of Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people as Title-holders of their lands, traditional knowledge keepers, sacred life-givers, and matriarchs within extended kinship networks.
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Recommendation 37:
All Canadian and Aboriginal governments must ensure that Indigenous women are engaged fully and have equitable access to decision-making on issues of governance, land, culture, language, housing, child care, income security, employment, education, health, and other areas impacting Indigenous women.
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- Culture and language ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Economic inequality ,
- Education and employment ,
- Health, wellness and services ,
- Indigenous children and youth in care ,
- Indigenous rights and self-governance ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Public services ,
- Representation and leadership ,
- Sexism
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Recommendation 69:
Advocacy with the Federal government to ensure Indigenous organizations are able to access benefits as the current benefit through Indigenous Services Canada is only for people on reserve resulting in a gap. There needs to be advocacy so Indigenous youth are equally able to access relief funds and the same benefits provided to youth on reserve. In Burns Lake, the Friendship Centers are struggling to provide hampers, food, and to continue providing services to those most impacted by the pandemic.
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Recommendation 50:
Aboriginal governments should provide mandatory training for band councillors and community leaders to ensure that they treat the issue as a high priority.
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Recommendation 51:
Aboriginal governments should increase funding for education and programs regarding violence prevention directed at children, youth, and adults with an emphasis on consent, sexual education, and healthy relationships.
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Recommendation 52:
Aboriginal governments should fund community-based education to ensure that the historical and cultural importance of two-spirit identity is widely understood, supported, and promoted.
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Recommendation 53:
Aboriginal governments should adopt the principle of equal representation of women in governing councils and decision-making bodies, and introduce pay-equity policies on reserve.
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Recommendation 24:
Empower the ability for Indigenous organizations to file collectively, to advance claims on behalf of individuals, similar in context to a “human rights class action.”
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Recommendation 11:
The BCHRT, working in concert with the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, could approach other human rights agencies to institute an Indigenous ombuds office across jurisdictions, per the recommendation of the MMIWG2S Inquiry.
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- Access to justice ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- 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 and the criminal justice system ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Public services
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Recommendation 48:
Encourage the creation of regional, or circuit, human rights clinics to both educate and assist Indigenous Peoples in filing and carrying through human rights claims. Explore options for clinics or workshops that operate regionally over time so lawyers can stick with a case, including potentially working with the three BC law schools. Clinics should be led by leading Indigenous counsel and provide representation to Indigenous Peoples, individually and collectively.
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