A/HRC/54/31/Add.2 Economic, social and cultural rights 97. Canada should: (a) Provide support and adequate funding for targeted Indigenous health, education, housing and social services programmes so that Indigenous Peoples can implement their own culturally relevant programmes; (b) Adopt, promulgate and monitor national accessibility standards for Indigenous persons with disabilities, and ensure the accessibility of housing and social services within Indigenous Peoples’ communities; (c) Take the steps necessary to promote language recovery, conservation and revitalization; (d) Investigate the practice of forced sterilization and other forms of obstetric violence towards Indigenous women to establish policies and accountability mechanisms and provide victims with full remedy, including compensation; (e) Adopt “Joyce’s Principle” to guarantee all Indigenous Peoples the right of equitable access, without discrimination, to all social and health services, as well as the right to enjoy the highest attainable standard of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health in accordance with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. GE.23-13374 21

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