E/CN.4/2005/21 page 17 2. States should ensure that reliable disaggregated statistical data are made available widely to the public and that the implementation and evaluation of policies and programmes based on such data analysis involve consultation and the participation of the public, including the civil society organizations. 3. States should ensure that anti-discrimination laws are implemented in a comprehensive and practical manner in order to eliminate conditions that give rise to institutional and indirect discrimination affecting people of African descent in the public and private spheres. 4. States are encouraged to use racial-impact assessment methodologies in evaluating the results of anti-discrimination legislation. 5. States are urged to address persistent racial discrimination by undertaking specific positive measures aimed at overcoming underrepresentation of people of African descent and to ensure an equitable redistribution of resources and power between the latter and the dominant group. In this respect, people of African descent will be placed on an equal footing and will be empowered by an enabling environment through equitable treatment at all levels of society, in order to address the differences caused by racial discrimination. 6. States should establish, where appropriate, positive-measure programmes ensuring equitable opportunities and participation of people of African descent in politics, the administration of justice, economics, education, employment, health services and all other services, whether public or private. 7. In accordance with the principle of good governance, States should formulate and integrate positive measures within national plans of action for human rights to combat and remedy discrimination, pursuant to the relevant provisions of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action so as to ensure effective participation of people of African descent. 8. Recognizing the differential treatment based on racial and gender discrimination faced by women and girls of African descent, which impedes the full realization of their economic, social, political, cultural and civil rights, States are urged to adopt and implement positive measures to ensure the full realization of their substantive equality. 9. States should ensure that positive measures aimed at accelerating the achievement of the substantive equality of persons of African descent in employment and the labour market also address the situation of vulnerable groups of people of African descent who are victims of multiple forms of discrimination. 10. The Working Group reiterates its recommendation that a special fund be established to facilitate the participation of NGOs with particular interest in the area of competence of the Working Group.