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Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
Recommendation 189:
All medical and nursing schools in Canada must require courses dealing with Indigenous health issues, including the legacy of colonialism and its impacts, as well as skills-based training in anti-racism, human rights, and trauma-informed care.
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Recommendation 80:
All levels of government should pay living wages to all direct and contracted government employees, and encourage other employers to do the same.
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Recommendation 44:
All levels of government should fully implement Jordan’s Principle.
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Recommendation 133:
All levels of government must recognize the inherent and constitutionally protected right of Indigenous people to establish and control Indigenous justice systems. All levels of government must also fund the establishment of Indigenous law institutes to support the restoration and advancement of Indigenous legal systems.
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Recommendation 56:
All levels of government must coordinate on an Indigenous specific poverty reduction plan, complete with specific goals, targets, timelines, and accountabilities.
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Recommendation 158:
All levels of government must commit to using non-incarceration measures especially for poverty-related minor offenses. Governments must also provide sufficient and stable funding to Indigenous communities and organizations to provide alternatives to incarceration including community-based rehabilitation, diversion, community courts, and restorative justice methods geared towards Indigenous women.
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Recommendation 110:
All levels of government must buy or lease SRO hotels to prevent them from gentrifying and pushing out low-income residents.
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Recommendation 180:
All levels of government must acknowledge that the current state of Indigenous women’s health is a direct result of colonialism and government policies.
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Recommendation 36:
All levels of government and police forces must end the criminalization of Indigenous peoples who are asserting their jurisdiction and rights to lands and resources.
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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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