A/HRC/41/42/Add.1 (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; 19

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