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It also considers the barriers to Indigenous women accessing various forms of housing and identifies housing options that would improve accessibility of housing for Indigenous women upon release from prison.

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A new partnership between the Women's, La Trobe University and three other Victorian public hospitals is giving pregnant Indigenous women greater access to «gold standard» maternity Women's, La Trobe University and three other Victorian public hospitals is giving pregnant Indigenous women greater access to «gold standard» maternity women greater access to «gold standard» maternity care.

2.3 by 2030 double the agricultural productivity and the incomes of small - scale food producers, particularly women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets, and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment

Like women, indigenous environmental defenders often face more risks due to their marginalization, proximity to remaining contested lands, and historical lack of political legitimacy and access to monetary resources.

The provincial government has received no grade higher than C + this year and has shown particularly inadequate performance in addressing violence against Indigenous women and girls and improving access to justice.

These measures must incorporate the provision of information and assistance to ensure that indigenous women have effective access to legal remedies in relation to custody matters.

In particular, BC has not taken action to address the ongoing violence against Indigenous women and girls, the basic human rights of many incarcerated women and girls are overlooked, many women do not have access to secure housing, women continue to be more economically insecure than men, and women remain unable to enforce their legal rights because of inadequate — and grossly underfunded — legal aid.

Commission staff recently completed a consultation with indigenous women about the barriers they face when trying to access justice through the federal commission.

Around 70 % of women who access the centre and shelter are Indigenous.

All of these policies severely limited Indigenous women's livelihood by severing community ties and preventing Indigenous women's access to community resources and safety networks.

The programs address key challenges in adherence to the rule of law in Indonesia, including judicial corruption, access to government ID, women's inheritance and property rights, forest - related land conflicts, and paralegal assistance in remote indigenous communities.

It specifically recommend earmarking funds in the Canada social transfer for civil legal aid in order to ensure that women have access to family justice with a particular emphasis on victims of violence, indigenous women, and women with disabilities.

The reports display considerable consensus on the root causes of violence against Indigenous women: poverty, poor housing, little access to and support for education, few employment opportunities, the legacy of the residential school system, colonialism and other discriminatory Canadian policies towards Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous women also find it difficult to access the private rental market at the best of times, and time spent in prison only exacerbates the difficulties.

For the purposes of this research we focussed on Indigenous women's access to public housing and emergency accommodation upon release, the types of support programs that may or may not be provided with housing, and how the accessibility of housing impacts on a woman being able to exercise her human right to housing.

Considering that many Indigenous women exiting prison systems around Australia are affected by a mental illness and / or a substance abuse problem, this may go someway to explaining why many people throughout the consultations claimed that Indigenous women newly released from prison were unable to access emergency accommodation.

Throughout the consultations for this report it was frequently said that Indigenous women, who do not have the support of family and community, generally find it difficult to access any kind of housing.

However other participants in the consultations indicated that only a small fraction of Indigenous women requiring support are in fact accessing these services.

(4) As highlighted in the Social Justice Report 2002, incarceration can contribute to an Indigenous woman becoming dislocated from her family, community, cultural responsibilities, services she may have been accessing prior to incarceration and housing.

If Indigenous homelessness is to be addressed effectively, it must be understood in an historical and cultural context that takes account of past injustices... Without taking this historical perspective into account, and the sustained marginalised treatment of Indigenous people by the State, it is not possible to fully identify and address the barriers to Indigenous people, and women in particular, accessing appropriate services.

This includes closing the gender pay gap, increasing access to affordable child care and tackling the poverty facing disadvantaged women including single mothers, Indigenous women, older women, women and girls with disabilities, and women facing domestic violence and sexual harassment in the workplace and community.

There are clear links between the extremely high rates of mental disorder in this group, limited access to appropriate mental health care in community and custody, and the vast over-representation of Indigenous women in custody.

Katherine Women's Information and Legal Service chief executive Sandra Nelson said the 50 per cent cut to its budget would mean «a reduction in access to justice for Indigenous women&raWomen's Information and Legal Service chief executive Sandra Nelson said the 50 per cent cut to its budget would mean «a reduction in access to justice for Indigenous women&rawomen».

The state of access to justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their over-representation in the criminal justice system is a national crisis, as is violence against Indigenous women and children.

One step towards this can be made by ensuring Indigenous women have the freedom of choice to access support services should they choose to both during imprisonment and post-release; to access accommodation that is appropriate to their requirements; and to provide health and other community support services that meet their needs as Indigenous women.

In recent discussions with communities concerning issues faced by Indigenous women exiting prison, one of the concerns raised was the difficulties many Indigenous people faced in accessing employment after their release from prison.

(26) So, for example, if an Indigenous group has customs in relation to a significant women's site the group may have native title rights to prevent men accessing the site, but would not have native title rights to prevent photographs, videos or descriptions of the site being passed to men.

A matter of particular concern is the limited ability of funding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (ATSILS) to provide access to justice for Indigenous women through legal representation and family violence services.

The Family Violence Prevention Legal Service Program (FVPLS) has been introduced as a response to Indigenous women's lack of access to Legal Aid services.

A matter of great concern in relation to current debates about addressing family violence in Indigenous communities is the lack of attention paid to issues of access to justice for Indigenous women.

ATSIS notes that «This relatively small and under - resourced program is unable to address the barriers Indigenous women face in accessing Indigenous Legal Aid services, nor to provide the range of legal services available through ATSILS».

A matter of great concern in relation to current debates about addressing family violence in Indigenous communities are issues of access to justice for Indigenous women.