A/HRC/43/41/Add.2 B. Recommendations General 91. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Government: (a) Ensure that all public policies, including disability-specific policies, adopt a human rights-based approach to disability and remove barriers that impede the effective and full participation of persons with disabilities on an equal basis with others; (b) Increase the awareness, knowledge and capacity of all government officials, civil servants, service providers and civil society representatives to implement articles 4 (1) and 8 of the Convention and engage in a broad-ranging public awareness campaign on the Convention and the rights-based approach to disability. Legal and policy framework 92. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Government: (a) Ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure, the American Convention on Human Rights and its Protocols, the Inter-American Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities and the InterAmerican Convention on Protecting the Human Rights of Older Persons; (b) Withdraw its reservation to article 12 (4) of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; (c) Conduct a comprehensive legislative review to fully harmonize the federal, provincial and territorial normative frameworks with the provisions of the Convention, including by revising legislation on legal capacity, access to justice, mental health and community treatment orders; (d) Enable full implementation of the right to legal capacity of persons with disabilities and repeal all forms of substitute decision-making; (e) Adopt a pan-Canadian strategy or framework to coordinate the implementation of the Convention at the federal, provincial and territorial levels; (f) Take measures to ensure that indigenous persons with disabilities have access to culturally-sensitive, quality services and programmes; (g) Provide the Canadian Human Rights Commission with appropriate financial and human resources to implement its new mandate as national independent monitoring mechanism in line with article 33 (2) of the Convention and encourage provinces and territories to designate independent monitoring mechanisms in their respective jurisdictions; (h) Collect data on the situation of indigenous persons with disabilities and persons with disabilities placed in institutions. Accessibility 93. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Government: (a) Ensure access to persons with disabilities, on an equal basis with others, to the physical environment, to transportation and to information and communications technologies; 18

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