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or belief minorities. Program indicators and reporting requirements should be designed to
avoid gathering unnecessary sensitive information; and relevant staff should be trained on
digital security.
(e)
Where it is safe to do so, support comprehensive, consensual collection and
sharing of disaggregated data on minority groups in humanitarian contexts, thereby
facilitating identification of problems otherwise hidden due to the marginalized nature of
these communities.
80.
Civil society actors (including faith-based actors) should:
(a)
Promote interfaith engagement (including through the #Faith4Rights
framework), oppose essentializing narratives about religious or belief communities and
refrain from and publicly denounce hatred and incites discrimination, hostility, or violence
against persons based on religion or belief. Faith-based leaders and influencers should use
their authority to promote inclusive, peaceful and just conflict resolutions and to prevent
tensions arising, particularly where conducted in the name of religion or belief.
81.
Humanitarian actors should:
(a)
Systematically include a needs and capacity-based assessment of affected
communities, including religious or belief minorities. Humanitarian interventions must avoid
leading to or reinforcing discrimination against religious or belief minorities.
(b)
Ensure that every displaced person has the right to challenge the cessation of
refugee status, and States should ensure that procedures are in place, with oversight of
UNHCR, to critically evaluate governmental claims that it is safe to return.
82.
Digital technology companies and the media more broadly should:
(a)
As digital technology companies, including social media, undertake content
moderation practices, they should:
(i)
apply relevant international human rights norms and standards to
combat incitement to discrimination, hostility and violence, including the
Rabat Plan of Action’s six-part threshold test;
(ii)
consider local linguistic, social, and political contexts to astutely assess
the risk of incitement; and;
(iii) avoid marginalizing or erasing the narratives and protected
speech of religious or belief minorities.
(b)
Adopt media guidelines for reporting on religious or belief communities,
including minorities, embedding good practices for avoiding stereotypes and generalizations,
portraying diversity and explaining context.196 Journalists and other content producers should
be trained accordingly.
83.
Private enterprises should:
(a)
Promote and respect human rights in line with the U.N. Guiding Principles on
Business and Human Rights. Businesses should avoid action that creates or furthers tensions
between groups or leads to violence targeting religious or belief minorities. They should seek
to provide opportunities for suitable members of religious or belief minorities who face
disadvantage and discrimination in wider society.
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