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(h)
Ensure systemic and comparable national data collection on all
manifestations of gender-based violence against women and girls and femicide, as well
as specific information on violence against women and the femicide of indigenous
women, establish and provide support to existing femicide watch or observatories,
including indigenous women’s femicide observatories, and ensure that such
observatories focus on prevention through a human rights-based analysis of cases, as
recommended in the thematic report of the Special Rapporteur on modalities for the
establishment of femicide observatories (A/71/398);
(i)
Ensure the collection of data on trafficking in women and girls, including
indigenous women and LGBTQ2 people;
(j)
Establish the adequate number and distribution of and sustainable
funding for culturally appropriate victim’s services, shelters and second-stage
affordable housing facilities dedicated to women victims of violence, giving due
consideration to the specific needs of women belonging to vulnerable groups, in line
with the recommendations of the Special Rapporteur contained in her report
(A/HRC/35/30), which encompass the establishment of specific shelters and services
tailored to indigenous women and communities, including those living in remote areas,
which should be run by them;
(k)
In order to strengthen its framework on sexual assault and the criminal
justice system, improve, in cooperation with provinces and territories, criminal justice
responses to survivors, including by providing free legal aid at the federal, provincial
and territorial levels;
(l)
Ensure consistency in policy and legislation in all jurisdictions in order
to promptly address sexual violence on university campuses and in schools;
(m) Investigate all allegations of forced or coerced sterilization, with
attention given to cases involving indigenous women and girls, ensuring justice and
remedies, including reparations to survivors and their families, explicitly prohibiting
sterilization without free, full and informed consent and enforcing health-care
professional accountability;
(n)
Establish a consistent approach in all jurisdictions regulating online
violence against women and the prohibition of the non-consensual distribution of
intimate images by implementing best practices from Canada and the related
recommendations of the Special Rapporteur (A/HRC/38/47);
(o)
Ensure that relevant labour legislation addresses the full spectrum of
violence and harassment against women in the world of work and that it does so
consistently across jurisdictions, covering all women workers, including migrant
workers;
(p)
Amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act to guarantee
protection to survivors of trafficking and offer adequate support to trafficked persons,
as well as faster access to permanent residence, increase access to information about
temporary residence permits to victims of human trafficking and streamline
applications for permanent residence;
(q)
Enable women migrant workers to have open work permits, or regional
or sectorial work permits, and end the practice of issuing conditional work permits or
those difficult to obtain;
(r)
Provide resources to assist migrant women in filling out their forms in
order to prevent misinformation, including funding non-governmental organizations
to provide such assistance;
(s)
Fully implement the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the
Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules) and the United Nations Rules for
the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women
Offenders (the Bangkok Rules), the latter of which provides guidance for women in
prison;
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