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and data collection. The Working Group calls upon States to take the necessary
action and implement its recommendations:
Equal access to justice
59. The principles of restorative justice should be applied in addressing access
to justice for people of African descent.
60. Young people of African descent should benefit, including, when
appropriate, through the provision of special measures, from access to quality
education and appropriate professional orientation in order to have access to
positions in the judiciary and administrative institutions at the highest levels.
61. States should prioritize prevention and the institutionalization of care in
order to ensure that institutionalization of young people is a last resort.
62. States should recognize the intersectional nature of discrimination on the
basis of gender, religion, ethnicity and other forms, keeping in mind that
perpetrators of multiple forms of discrimination are not always cognizant of
the fact that they are racially discriminating.
63. Appropriate education and training for young people of African descent
should be provided in order to prevent unemployment, social stigmatization,
police profiling, and brutality.
64. Quality, free legal aid should be offered for women of African descent who
are in need, so that access to justice is available to everyone. Information about
legal services and legal centres should be easily available and widely distributed,
especially among groups facing multiple forms of discrimination, such as
women of African descent. Regular training and education about their legal
rights and available services should be provided to people of African descent.
65. Guidelines should be adopted for the prevention, recording, investigation
and prosecution of racist or xenophobic incidents. Guidelines should guarantee
that people of African descent who are victims of acts of racism, especially
women of African descent as victims of multiple forms of discrimination,
receive proper treatment in police stations, so that complaints are recorded
immediately, investigations are pursued without delay and in an effective,
independent and impartial manner, and files relating to racist or xenophobic
incidents are retained and incorporated into databases.
66. People of African descent should be able to effectively seek protection and
remedies, through the competent national tribunals and other State institutions,
against any acts of racial discrimination and to seek from such tribunals just
and adequate reparation or satisfaction for any damage suffered as a result of
such discrimination.
67. Judicial remedies in cases of racial discrimination should be easily
accessible, prompt, impartial, affordable and geographically accessible. Law
enforcement and judicial services shall have an adequate and accessible
presence in the neighbourhoods, regions, collective facilities, camps or centres
where groups of people of African descent reside, so that their complaints can
be expeditiously received. Accessible and youth-friendly reporting systems and
services must be in place.
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