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displaced and local host communities should be incorporated into the post-crisis
programming of the United Nations and other international development partners.
98.
Where applicable, States should ensure that all necessary steps are taken for the
environmental and developmental rehabilitation of areas to which displaced persons are
returning.
99.
States should ensure that minority groups affected by displacement are adequately
included in any durable solution, strategy or displacement-focused policy developed
following the displacement of a population. Such strategies and policies should contribute
to shaping a comprehensive response that includes protection and humanitarian and
developmental considerations. Comprehensive profiling activities can be helpful for
informing the implementation of such processes.
100. States should ensure effective and comprehensive monitoring of recovery and
progress towards durable solutions for all communities, including persons belonging to
minorities who may face specific obstacles or discrimination hindering them from reestablishing their lives or reaching a durable solution after a crisis.
Access to services
101. States should plan and implement psychosocial support programmes for persons
belonging to minorities who are recovering from a crisis. Such programmes should be
sensitive to the culture, religion, age and gender of the beneficiaries. States should ensure
that minorities are informed of the existence of such services that are specifically designed
for them.
102. Minority children in post-crisis situations should be guaranteed equal access to
quality education that promotes an intercultural approach that values cultural diversity. 19
103. No discriminatory practice should prevent members of minority communities from
accessing the labour market, employment or any livelihood opportunities following a crisis.
Where previous livelihoods cannot be re-established, States should provide and promote
new employment or livelihood opportunities for recovering communities via training,
education and positive measures to ensure their full recovery, and protect them from further
marginalization.
104. Targeted attention must be paid to minorities who may be subject to multiple and
intersectional forms of discrimination at the post-crisis stage. All service providers must
take into account that some groups within minority communities, such as women, children,
older persons, persons with disabilities or lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex
persons may need special support in order not to be excluded from the delivery of such
services.
Claiming minority rights
105. States, the United Nations, international and other actors should work at all stages,
but in particular at the recovery stage, to empower minorities so as to enable them to know
and to claim their rights and raise awareness about their own situation. In this respect,
minority activists and civil society organizations should be supported, in particular at the
post-crisis stage.
106. States should implement the principles on housing and property restitution for
refugees and displaced persons, 20 ensure that restitution claim procedures are physically,
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See the recommendations of the first session of the Forum on Minority Issues (A/HRC/10/11/Add.1).
E/CN.4/Sub.2/2005/17, annex.