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Decolonization and Indigenous rights
Recommendation 82:
We call upon all elementary, secondary, and post-secondary institutions and education authorities to educate and provide awareness to the public about missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people, and about the issues and root causes of violence they experience. All curriculum development and programming should be done in partnership with Indigenous Peoples, especially Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people. Such education and awareness must include historical and current truths about the genocide against Indigenous Peoples through state laws, policies, and colonial practices. It should include, but not be limited to, teaching Indigenous history, law, and practices from Indigenous perspectives and the use of Their Voices Will Guide Us with children and youth.
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Recommendation 97:
We call upon all child welfare agencies to establish more rigorous requirements for safety, harm-prevention, and needs-based services within group or care homes, as well as within foster situations, to prevent the recruitment of children in care into the sex industry. We also insist that governments provide appropriate care and services, over the long term, for children who have been exploited or trafficked while in care.
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Recommendation 95:
We call upon all child and family services agencies to engage in recruitment efforts to hire and promote Indigenous staff, as well as to promote the intensive and ongoing training of social workers and child welfare staff in the following areas:
- history of the child welfare system in the oppression and genocide of Indigenous Peoples
- anti-racism and anti-bias training
- local culture and language training
- sexual exploitation and trafficking training to recognize signs and develop specialized responses
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Recommendation 71:
We call upon all chief coroners and provincial vital statistics agencies that have not provided to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada their records on the deaths of Aboriginal children in the care of residential school authorities to make these documents available to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.
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Recommendation 198:
We call upon all actors within the justice system to engage in education and training regarding the history and contemporary realities of Métis experiences.
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Recommendation 71:
We call upon all actors in the justice system, including police services, to build respectful working relationships with Indigenous Peoples by knowing, understanding, and respecting the people they are serving. Initiatives and actions should include, but are not limited to, the following measures:
- Review and revise all policies, practices, and procedures to ensure service delivery that is culturally appropriate and reflects no bias or racism toward Indigenous Peoples, including victims and survivors of violence.
- Establish engagement and partnerships with Indigenous Peoples, communities, and leadership, including women, Elders, youth, and 2SLGBTQQIA people from the respective territories and who are resident within a police service’s jurisdiction.
- Ensure appropriate Indigenous representation, including Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people, on police services boards and oversight authorities.
- Undertake training and education of all staff and officers so that they understand and implement culturally appropriate and trauma-informed practices, especially when dealing with families of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people.
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- Access to justice ,
- Culture and language ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Gender-based violence ,
- Human rights system ,
- Indigenous issues in policing and justice ,
- Policing ,
- Policing and the criminal justice system ,
- Public education and reconciliation ,
- Racism ,
- Representation and leadership ,
- Sexism
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Recommendation 2:
We call on the Province of British Columbia to link the implementation and monitoring of the Declarations on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act with the First Nations PHWA as a way to monitor the impacts of increased self-determination on First Nations roots of wellness and health outcomes.
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Recommendation 1:
We call on the Government of Canada, in meaningful partnership with First Nations, to pass private members Bill C-262, or an equivalent bill, to enact legislation that will require the federal government to align its existing and new legislation with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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Recommendation 4:
We call on system partners who possess data that relates to First Nations health and wellness in the broadest sense to uphold First Nations data governance principles to make the data accessible to First Nations and their organizations. Goals of this work include supporting self-determination, Nation-rebuilding, and further development of institutions. FNHA is uniquely positioned to support the data governance of Nations, while providing a strong voice on First Nations population health at the provincial level through a stewardship and Watchmon role.
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Recommendation 3:
We call on BC municipal governments to review practices, policies, and bylaws and take actions in meaningful partnership with local First Nations, on whose territory they now reside, to promote local First Nations self-determination. Municipalities and local BC First Nations should collaboratively identify opportunities to nourish local BC First Nations’ roots of wellness and develop mechanisms to regularly demonstrate reciprocal accountability on progress towards increased shared decision-making and First Nations self-determination.
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