A/HRC/41/42/Add.1 (t) In compliance with the above-mentioned rules, institute a ban on solitary confinement, segregation, intensive psychiatric care, strip searching and all other related forms of isolation of women in detention, including young women, women with mental health issues and indigenous women, who experience high rates of segregation, and guarantee that mother and child and rehabilitation programmes are always in place; (u) Reduce the overcrowding of detention centres, ensuring that sections 81 and 84 of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act relating to federal corrections are consistently applied, and give preference to alternatives to imprisonment for prisoners with severe mental health issues by transferring such prisoners to mental health services, facilities or psychiatric hospitals, pursuant to existing and/or potential exchange of service agreements between the federal, provincial and territorial health authorities; (v) Take concrete steps to eliminate the overrepresentation of indigenous women in custody (and correctional facilities for indigenous girls) in custody, issue detailed annual reports to monitor and evaluate progress in doing so, and stop classifying them, when they are detained, as having a low potential to reintegrate; (w) Address the disproportionately high number of indigenous children institutionalized by child welfare authorities, which renders Indigenous women more vulnerable to violence, given that they are reluctant to seek help from authorities for fear that their children may be taken away from them; (x) In collaboration with all levels of jurisdictions, establish the civilian oversight of police as an important step in monitoring the police response to sexual assault and sexual assault survivors, especially indigenous women and girls; (y) Establish an independent civilian oversight body for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to monitor the police response to sexual assault and sexual assault survivors, especially indigenous women and girls; (z) Support an external review, in cooperation with civil society and indigenous communities, of the disproportionately high levels of racism, abuse and violence towards indigenous women and girls by police and correctional officers, with a view to implementing preventive measures and enforcing institutional accountability on a concept of zero tolerance for the excessive use of force and sexual harassment or assault. 97. Concerning women with disabilities, the Government of Canada should fully align policies and legal framework with the recommendations made by the international human rights mechanisms and provide a comprehensive assessment of the situation of girls and women with disabilities in Canada. 98. Concerning women refugees and asylum seekers, the Government of Canada should: (a) Amend immigration and refugee policies to end the practice under which women, including pregnant women, and children can be detained indefinitely, and the Government should also put in place an independent oversight mechanism to monitor the Canada Border Services Agency and its detention policies in order to deal with complaints of violence and abuse towards women in detention; (b) Adopt measures that will facilitate the process of the regularization of migrant status based on humanitarian and gender-based violence against women grounds, in line with the Committee’s general recommendation No. 32 (2014) on the gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women. 99. Concerning the protection LGBTQ2 women victims of stigmatization and violence and of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex rights, the Government of Canada should increase the provision of and funding for support services that are culturally relevant and community- and survivor-based. 20