A/HRC/54/31/Add.2 (c) Provide core sustainable funding for Indigenous women’s centres, shelters, transitional housing, treatment facilities and other safe spaces, including culturally relevant, comprehensive health-care support; (d) Increase funding and resources to develop culturally appropriate programmes and services for men and boys to address the intergenerational trauma and abuse suffered by Indigenous men that contributes to the many types of violence experienced by Indigenous women and girls. Gender-based discrimination in the Indian Act 93. Canada should: (a) Implement the recommendations of the Standing Senate Committee on Indigenous Peoples to repeal section 6 (2) of the Indian Act (the “second generation cutoff”), which reduces the number of individuals with status; to repeal non-liability clauses in the amendments to the Act, in order to allow First Nations women and their descendants who were denied status to be compensated; and to develop plain language materials in Indigenous languages and the country’s official languages to explain the eligibility and the registration process; 61 (b) Support registration by women and their descendants newly eligible for status through a streamlined, easily accessible process; and create an affordable, reliable, timely and accessible remedy to compensate those who have suffered the effects of discrimination. Overincarceration and access to justice 94. Canada should: (a) Address the concerns of human rights treaty monitoring bodies and special procedures with regard to providing human rights training to all legal, correctional and law enforcement professionals;62 (b) Provide Indigenous prisoners with access to culturally appropriate programming and services, including by strengthening the role of Elders in correctional plans, addressing the specific needs of gender-diverse prisoners, ensuring that independent grievance mechanisms are in place and not subjecting prisoners to reprisals for filing reports of abuse by staff at correction facilities; (c) Ensure that any imposition of administrative segregation complies with the Nelson Mandela Rules; (d) Resort, wherever possible, to alternatives to detention enabling Indigenous persons to serve sentences in their communities; encourage, appropriately fund, and raise awareness about the use of alternatives to incarceration as provided by the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act and sections 81 and 84 of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act; and guarantee that Indigenousoperated healing lodges established under section 81 are independent in providing correctional services; (e) Continue to expand the Aboriginal Justice Strategy and strengthen Indigenous legal systems, restorative justice programmes and healing lodges and culturally appropriate victim and offender treatment programmes. Treaties and self-government agreements 95. 61 62 GE.23-13374 Canada should: “Make it stop! Ending the remaining discrimination in Indian registration” (2022), pp. 6 and 7. See, for example, CRC/C/CAN/CO/3-4. 19