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Access to Justice
- providing women
access to a fair, safe and equitable legal process in obtaining custody
access agreements, property settlements, separation agreements and
other family law matters via the legal aid system
- ensuring access
to courthouses, victim services, family advocates, etc., especially
in rural communities
- adequately funding
systems, such as the Ombudsman and the Human Rights Commission, which
enable women to seek redress on issues of discrimination and human rights,
especially in government services
- asserting First
Nations/Aboriginal legal and social rights as sovereign nations with
the recognition of historical injustices
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Access to Services
- providing
funding to a broad range of crisis intervention, prevention, counseling,
advocacy and support services
- working to ensure
changes to service provision are made with respect to women's unequal
position in society and with the intent to improve women's access
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Economic Equality
- understanding
that achieving economic equality and ending violence against women are
interdependent and indivisible goals
- comprehension
and valuation of women's unpaid work in the home and community
- ensuring availability
of income supports to provide abused women with options and empowering
women with choices before abuse starts and in the event that they
choose to leave
- working towards
decreasing wage gap between men and women
- implementation
of public sector pay equity legislation
- safeguarding an
adequate minimum wage
- ensuring access
to universal childcare
- maintaining assistance
programs for women experiencing debt crisis
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Gender-Inclusive Policy Reform
- providing access
to government through consultation, transparency and openness
- prior to legislation,
regulations and policy changes that directly impact women, providing
communities with information about changes and providing access to
information in a straight forward manner
- understanding
that the same cut will affect women and men differently and that a
gender neutral approach ignores women’s realities potentially increasing
women’s risks
- applying a gender-based
analysis to all policy, program and legislative changes that will affect
women
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Women's Equality and Human
Rights
- understanding
oppression as the root cause of violence against women, as outlined
by International Human Rights Treaties, and the need to work for long-term,
systemic change
- protecting women's
Human Rights through compliance with the Canadian Constitution and the
Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the BC Bill of Rights, and International
Human Rights Treaties, such as the United Nations Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
- actively seeking
the removal of barriers that prevent women’s human rights from being
attained
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