A/HRC/54/31/Add.1 Access to justice in Greenland 102. The Special Rapporteur recommends that, within their fields of competence, Denmark and Greenland: (a) Provide adequate human and financial resources for (i) reaching remote settlements; (ii) training judicial personnel on international standards on Indigenous Peoples; (iii) training qualified interpreters and translators, including in North and East Greenlandic; (iv) providing digitalization, communications technology and personal data security; (v) reducing case processing times by the police and the courts, especially in cases involving children; and (vi) providing adequate mental health support in the prison system; (b) Strengthen educational opportunities, including the law programme at the University of Greenland, to overcome the structural imbalance of the justice system in Greenland and increase the presence of Inuit at all levels thereof; ensure that the Inuit legal tradition is included in the curriculum of the law programme; and give preference to Greenlandic as the primary language of instruction; (c) Adopt adequate social policies to target poverty and social marginalization as root causes of the high rates of incarceration and recidivism in Greenland; strengthen resocialization measures in all prisons; and offer out-of-prison activities; (d) Clarify the status and mandates of administrative structures within central government, provide effective and accessible remedies, strengthen the healthcare system in Greenland to reduce the wait for mental health examinations and offer appropriate health-care facilities for inmates; (e) Extend the mandate and guarantee the independence of the Human Rights Council of Greenland so as to receive complaints of human rights violations and independently investigate them. Gender equality and violence against women and children 103. The Special Rapporteur recommends that Greenland: (a) Promote the meaningful and informed participation of Indigenous women and girls in political and public life at all levels, including in decision-making positions, which may include temporary positive measures; (b) Increase efforts to combat child sexual abuse and violence, as well as impunity, including by developing and conducting long-term educational and awareness-raising programmes and campaigns on preventive measures; (c) Secure the availability of child- and gender-sensitive, confidential and safe counselling, reporting and complaint mechanisms in order to address incidents of sexual abuse and violence. Children 104. The Special Rapporteur recommends that Greenland: (a) Ensure that adequate resources are assigned for the implementation of the national action plan on compliance with the Convention of the Rights of the Child and that it is put in place through collaboration with municipal authorities, civil society, the National Advocacy Centre for Children’s Rights, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the children’s advisory board in Greenland (Nakuusa); reach remote Inuit settlements and, in coordination with them, design culturally appropriate intervention measures in the framework of the national action plan, in order to ensure local ownership; and provide culturally appropriate mental health treatments and develop measurable indicators; (b) Dedicate more resources to mental health care, including preventive measures, and strengthen the inclusion of child and youth perspectives and coordination with municipal authorities. The national strategy on the prevention of GE.23-13414 19

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