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interpretation facilities, particularly at airports and other border points. It
also urges the State party to ensure that new legislation is adopted that
addresses eligibility for refugee status and the rights of refugees and specifies
the refugee status determination procedures and rights of review. The
Committee recommends that the State party provide further information in
this regard in its next periodic report.
14. The Committee is disturbed by reports of trafficking of migrants, particularly migrant
women exploited as sexual workers.
The Committee urges the State party to develop comprehensive policies and
allocate adequate resources to prevent, investigate and punish these crimes,
as well as to provide assistance and support to victims, and recommends that
the State party provide further information on the vulnerable situation of
migrants and indigenous women in its next periodic report.
15. The Committee is concerned about incidents of incitement to racial hatred and racist
propaganda in the media, including on the Internet.
The Committee recalls that article 4 of the Convention is applicable to the
phenomenon of racism in the media, including on the Internet, and that the
fundamental principle of respect for human dignity requires all States to
combat dissemination of racial hatred and incitement to racial hatred. It
recommends that the State party take appropriate measures to combat racist
propaganda in the media and that it provide in its next periodic report
information on the development of the situation and measures taken in this
field.
16. The Committee is concerned about the State party’s failure to enact the necessary
legislation to implement the ILO Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No.
169). The Committee further notes reported difficulties in recognizing the legal
personality of indigenous peoples, the inadequate protection in practice of indigenous
peoples’ ownership and possession of ancestral lands and the consequential impairment
of indigenous peoples’ ability to practise their religious beliefs.
In the light of its general recommendation XXIII, the Committee urges the
State party to: fully implement ILO Convention No. 169; adopt, in
consultation with indigenous peoples, a general land tenure policy and
effective legal procedures to recognize indigenous peoples’ titles to land and
to demarcate territorial boundaries; adopt measures to safeguard indigenous
rights over ancestral lands, especially sacred sites, and compensate
indigenous peoples for land deprivation; ensure access to justice, as well as
recognize effectively the legal personality of indigenous peoples and their
communities in their traditional way of life, and respect the special
importance for the culture and spiritual values of indigenous peoples of their
relationship with the land.