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7.
Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to compile a series of best practices in
areas such as access to housing, education, health, employment and institutional and legal
frameworks pertaining to Africans and people of African descent;
8.
Decides to extend the mandate of the Working Group on People of African Descent
for three years with the following mandate, to meet for two sessions of five working days each in
closed and public meetings:
(a)
To study the problems of racial discrimination faced by people of African descent
living in the diaspora and, to that end, gather all relevant information from Governments, nongovernmental organizations and other relevant sources, including through the holding of public
meetings with them;
(b)
To propose measures to ensure full and effective access to the justice system by
people of African descent;
(c)
To submit recommendations on the design, implementation and enforcement of
effective measures to eliminate racial profiling of people of African descent;
(d)
To make proposals on the elimination of racial discrimination against Africans and
people of African descent in all parts of the world;
(e)
To address all the issues concerning the well-being of Africans and people of African
descent contained in the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action;
(f)
To elaborate short-, medium- and long-term proposals for the elimination of racial
discrimination against people of African descent, bearing in mind the need for close
collaboration with international and development institutions and the specialized agencies of the
United Nations system to promote the human rights of people of African descent through,
inter alia, the following activities:
(i)
Improving the human rights situation of people of African descent by devoting
special attention to their needs through, inter alia, the preparation of specific
programmes of action;