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139. Member States and the corporate sector must ensure that stakeholders are
attentive to structural barriers in international trade, banking, insurance and financing
systems.
140. Civil society should develop innovative public information and educational tools
for financial literacy and entrepreneurship.
141. Member States should provide government backing and insurance for Blackowned businesses, credit unions and cooperatives.
142. Member States should support reparations for people of African descent that put
justice at the centre, give pre-eminence to the interests and perspectives of the victims,
consider the systems and structures that perpetrate harm and address corporate and
individual culpability.
143. Member States and the international community should decolonize international
law to eliminate ideological barriers to equitable perspectives on culpability and
victimization, the very foundations of reparatory justice. Member States should audit
their indebtedness and return payments that were forcibly expropriated.
144. The United Nations should include the right to ancestral territories in the
proposed declaration of the rights of people of African descent.
145. Member States should ensure that financial and development institutions design
policies and programmes with clear, specific and measurable goals for the development
of people of African descent, informed by data that is disaggregated by race.
146. Governments, businesses and civil society should implement the Guiding
Principles on Business and Human Rights.
147. Member States, regional and international organizations, United Nations entities
and civil society organizations must meet their commitments for the implementation of
the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action and the programme of activities for
the implementation of the International Decade for People of African Descent.
148. Member States should declare a second international decade for people of
African descent and fully implement it, including by providing resources and
disseminating information.
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