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.
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