A/HRC/24/49 premises and information in alternative formats), and requested that the Expert Mechanism and the Permanent Forum follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and ensure that websites and reports are accessible, including by posting documents in Microsoft Word. 58. Ms. McKay informed participants about the discussion on women, youth and children during the Expert Seminar, highlighting this discussion within the context of the study and advice on access to justice. She welcomed further dialogue on the topic with participants in this session, noting statements related to sexual and reproductive rights of indigenous women in custody. 59. Ms. McKay highlighted the barriers to access to justice for indigenous women, youth and children, which include multiple discrimination, structural violence, high rates of incarceration and poverty, and the need to involve youth in truth and reconciliation commissions. Remedies highlighted included taking measures aimed at ensuring equality before the law. Concrete examples of this include gender-sensitization training of justice officers (in this case, with regard to indigenous women’s issues in particular), increased appointment of women to the judiciary, and legal reforms in areas where access to legal mechanisms is formally prohibited for women. She urged States to work in partnership, especially with indigenous women, to achieve equality before the law, particularly in the context of State and indigenous judicial systems. 60. Ms. Lorenzo highlighted the importance of understanding that access to justice is not only about righting past wrongs, but rather remedying current wrongs and preventing future injustices. She highlighted that the peremptory norm of non-discrimination is key when addressing substantive and restorative justice. 61. Citing the Expert Mechanism’s advice and study on access to justice, Ms. Lorenzo emphasized that indigenous peoples’ understanding of access to justice is different from that of States, and stressed that this must, first of all, include business operations within indigenous territories. She noted that monetary settlements do not equate with justice for indigenous peoples and urged the Expert Mechanism to take note of the differences in defining “justice” by States, indigenous peoples and businesses. 62. Ms. Lorenzo stressed that access to justice for indigenous peoples involves access to their cultures, territories, children, languages and ceremonies. She called for policies and laws that address access to justice in the future. 63. Participants expressed concern about achieving access to justice from extractive industries, as well as country-specific concerns. 64. Ms. Lasimbang referred to commissions of inquiry and transitional justice processes as one modality for increasing access to justice, underscoring that these are particularly effective where indigenous peoples participate fully. She expressed the need for indigenous peoples’ organizations to facilitate the participation of indigenous peoples. 65. Mr. Tsykarev highlighted the importance of recommendations of advice No. 5 to provide access to legal remedies for indigenous peoples and the continuing importance of access to justice in the work of the Expert Mechanism. An Ombudsman for the rights of indigenous peoples is a mechanism that could provide a powerful tool to increasing access to justice. He recommended that States and indigenous peoples encourage human rights organizations to advance the implementation of Human Rights Council resolution 22/6 on the protection of human rights defenders. Mr. Tsykarev recommended that continuing reference be made to the studies and advice of the Expert Mechanism and, in particular, that the studies and advice be referred to in the review and consideration of States under the universal periodic review and by the treaty bodies. 14