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Access to justice
Recommendation 7:
When Indigenous children are involved, parents, extended family, Elders, and trusted community members must be involved in guiding service providers, caregivers, and foster parents in the customary laws of the community and traditional Indigenous child rearing practices (including adoption).
Enhancing the Protective Environment for Children of Parents in Conflict with the Law or Incarcerated: A Framework for Action
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Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, University of the Fraser Valley – School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, University of the Fraser Valley – School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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2018
2018
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Recommendation 71:
When an officer fails to follow policy on use of force, review subsequent uses of force by that officer at the regional or national level.
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Recommendation 1:
We urge various jurisdictions to meaningfully engage Internationally Trained Physicians in all decision-making processes related to their medical licensing so that they can bring their voice, expertise, experiences to the table in order to advocate for more inclusive and fair policies.
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Recommendation 1:
We urge the government of BC to support a rights-based framework for survivors of sexual assault by committing to provide dedicated, secure, and sustainable funding for community-based assault crisis response teams and integrated sexual assault clinics across British Columbia. We support the submissions made by VASC and WAVAW and encourage the government of BC to implement their recommendations by way of both an increase in funding and a legislated right to a community-based assault crisis services.
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Recommendation 28:
We recommend that the SIU Review Committee be abolished, and law and policy be clear that prisoners have the right to be represented by counsel at an oral hearing before the actual decision maker.
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Recommendation 29:
We recommend that CSC invest in qualified, independent behavioural counsellors, occupational therapists and social workers to be available in all men’s and women’s SIUs to provide services to promote mental well being.
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Recommendation 30:
We recommend that CSC fund an external review of staff culture at all levels within CSC to develop a plan to change the culture of corrections, with a focus on the dignity and human rights of prisoners.
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Recommendation 31:
We recommend that any staff who behave inappropriately in relation to prisoners held in any form of isolation, or who deny them their rights, be disciplined and removed from working with vulnerable prisoners.
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Recommendation 32:
We recommend that all correctional officers be required to wear body cameras that record video and audio whenever they are working in areas with prisoners.
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Recommendation 29:
We call upon the parties and, in particular, the federal government, to work collaboratively with plaintiffs not included in the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement to have disputed legal issues determined expeditiously on an agreed set of facts.
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