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Sexism
Recommendation 29:
Ensure that women and children fleeing violence have priority for decent social housing.
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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 172:
End the current classification scale and reassess all Indigenous women currently classified at the maximum-security level using a gender and culturally-responsive classification tool.
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Recommendation 148:
End the counter-charging and criminalization of Indigenous women who defend themselves or their children from abuse and violence.
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Recommendation 185:
End the coerced sterilization of Indigenous women, and hold health professionals criminally responsible for acts of coerced sterilization.
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Recommendation 81:
Enact stand-alone proactive pay equity legislation that requires public and private sector employers to pay women equal pay for work of equal value.
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Recommendation 23:
Employ both an equity and intersectional lens, for existing and future legislation, regulations and policies in order to promote respect, dignity and fairness, and support diversity and equality for all people in communities across Canada.
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 11:
Embrace a women-centred philosophy in hotels with policies and practices that ensure women’s access and safety in all spaces, especially for Indigenous women and women of colour.
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Recommendation 63:
Eliminate barriers to accessing income and disability assistance by reducing unnecessary eligibility criteria and simplifying the application processes. This includes:
- Removing the two-year financial independence requirement for income assistance.
- Basing income assistance eligibility on current income only.
- Removing the penalty clawback for failure to work search requirements for income assistance.
- Removing the work search requirement for mothers with children over the age of three years old.
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Recommendation 1:
EDUCATION FOR ALL SYSTEM ACTORS—trauma-informed education for professionals engaged in all aspects of the criminal justice system
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