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Human rights system
Recommendation 27:
Ensure that immigration status is not a barrier to social housing
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Recommendation 86:
Ensure that healthcare for federal prisoners is provided independently from CSC through partnerships with provincial ministries of health. Ensure funding is adequate to make this work.
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Recommendation 63:
Ensure Internet access, access to technology, and in-person support to those accessing the legal system online.
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Recommendation 5:
Engage in proactive education with municipalities to ensure that zoning and regulatory bylaws, and related public consultation processes, do not discriminate based on social condition.
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Recommendation 2:
Engage in formalized, proactive education with professionals in healthcare settings, police, and private service providers (such as landlords and private security companies) to raise awareness of social condition as a prohibited ground of discrimination.
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Recommendation 3:
Engage in an audit of provincial and municipal laws and policies to identify potential discrimination based on social condition.
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Recommendation 1:
Engage in a provincial education campaign to ensure that all people in BC who may suffer discrimination on the basis of social condition, and all people in BC who are prohibited under the Code from discriminating on the basis of social condition are aware of the change.
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Recommendation 8:
End the policing practice of street checks; reduce the number of bylaw infraction tickets issued by police in the DTES; prohibit police from carrying and using all lethal weapons; develop guidelines to facilitate greater use of police discretion not to lay charges especially for minor poverty-related offences; and end the counter-charging and criminalization of Indigenous women who defend themselves or their children.
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- Access to justice ,
- Classism ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Economic inequality ,
- Human rights system ,
- Indigenous children and youth in care ,
- Indigenous issues in policing and justice ,
- Indigenous rights and self-governance ,
- Policing and the criminal justice system ,
- Poverty ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Sexism
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Recommendation 174:
End the placement of Indigenous women in solitary confinement in all prisons, and establish an independent external review of all Indigenous women in segregation placements.
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Recommendation 11:
End the criminalization of people who use or possess small amounts of illicit substances.
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