A/HRC/54/67 123. Religious organizations must teach, preach and practice racial equality in all spheres, including and specifically in the acquisition and management of knowledge, skills and material assets. 124. Member States, religious organizations, the United Nations and others should put in place positive measures to foster and sustain Black enterprise. 125. Member States must effectively manage extractive industries through rigorous transparency, oversight and accountability. 126. Governments and the private sector should increase the amount of low-interest money available over the long term to countries governed by people of African descent. 127. Member States should provide debt relief for highly indebted middle-income countries, including for debt to microfinance institutions, and enforce responsible lending and borrowing rules to prevent debt-fuelled capital flight. 128. Member States should conduct audits of their historic and contemporary actions, repay unjustly extracted payments and provide funding to fulfil the aspirations of people of African descent. 129. Development partners should collaborate with the private sector to create new and innovative financial instruments, such as green bonds and debt-for-climate or debtfor-nature swaps that remove the risk from investments. 130. Member States should curtail capital flight by preventing elites from exporting cash and State assets to Western havens and continue efforts to recover stolen assets. 131. Member States should leverage diaspora capital for development through better economic management, instilling confidence in political governance and social stability, and establishing national development trust funds, diaspora bonds, collective remittances and diaspora philanthropy, crowd-funding platforms and diaspora direct investment. 132. Member States and the United Nations should support the establishment of independent and publicly owned credit rating agencies to assess more fairly and transparently the credit rating of African countries and other countries that are predominantly Black. 133. Member States should address labour market inequalities by guaranteeing access to decent employment. 134. Member States should implement initiatives specific to people of African descent, such as small business loans for entrepreneurs of African descent, positive measures in employment and training or onboarding programmes, and grants for addressing bureaucratic procedures and other ancillary costs for business owners of African descent. 135. Civil society should adopt a decolonializing praxis in learning about historical inequalities and telling the stories of people of African descent in a way that is embedded in the collective conscience of people of African descent and draws on principles of reparatory justice. 136. Governments should support the development of Black business networks or similar initiatives across disadvantaged communities. 137. The United Nations should pursue digital equity for people of African descent through, for example, a declaration of the digital rights of people of African descent that outlines standard protection for people of African descent by States and private companies. Technological equity must be viewed through an intersectional lens. 138. Member States should strengthen education for people of African descent and consider appropriate remedies for students and teachers when they are targeted by racial discrimination. 18 GE.23-12890