A/HRC/36/46/Add.1 tribes. Provide technical assistance and adequate access to funding to indigenous peoples to ensure their meaningful participation in evaluating the extent to which a project could significantly affect them and to support them in their substantive preparation for consultations. Continue to work with indigenous peoples to understand their relationship with the land and indigenous knowledge of their ecosystem. (e) Ensure indigenous peoples have full access to redress for violations perpetrated on and against their lands and territories, including access to judicial forums to dispute claims and to concrete and timely assistance to mitigate adverse impacts on environmental and cultural resources. Adopt policies to ensure that mechanisms for future redress and remediation are clearly articulated during the initial consultation period between tribal, state and federal government actors; (f) Take appropriate measures to encourage consideration of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework by all actors in any project that impacts indigenous peoples in the United States. Equally, take measures to encourage private corporations working on tribal lands to follow the Guiding Principles, including adequate consideration and provision of remediation in advance of project commencement; (g) Reinstate the Environmental Impact Statement process for the Dakota Access Pipeline, in close cooperation with tribes, to fully consider the environmental, economic, social and cultural impacts to indigenous peoples, particularly in the light of the 14 June 2017 ruling by a federal court that federal permits authorizing the pipeline to cross the Missouri River just upstream of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation violated critical aspects of the law; (h) Continue to address the effects of uranium mining and abandoned uranium mines near reservation lands and provide proper compensation to those indigenous peoples affected by environmental disasters, including from the Gold King Mine spill in August 2015; (i) In the light of issues relating to climate change, provide more support for the development of renewable energy projects and programmes with the full participation of indigenous peoples; (j) Consider adopting legislation to enforce consultation for all projects that impact the traditional territories of local indigenous communities, in particular energy and infrastructure projects undertaken within indigenous peoples’ traditional territories and on lands not currently owned by them; (k) Enact legislation to ensure that Tribal Historic Preservation Officers have the ability to provide early and continual input into project proposals to ascertain the advancement of healthy indigenous communities and the completion of beneficial energy projects. Places of cultural, religious and historical significance 89. The federal Government should adopt legislation to amend existing laws governing the protection of sacred and cultural places beyond present-day reservation boundaries so as to further protect the religious freedoms of indigenous peoples. The policies should reflect the vision of indigenous peoples’ definition of sacredness as an interconnected landscape with unique relationships to the practice of religions, strengthening of community, livelihoods, subsistence and gathering of traditional medicines and resources. Violence against women 90. The Special Rapporteur commends the Government on the adoption of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act (2013) and encourages it to continue its efforts, including by strengthening legislation, to empower indigenous peoples to assert their own jurisdiction to adequately protect their members by providing them 19