A/HRC/34/68 communities are excluded from national or international support. They should also reinforce national capacities through technical assistance, in particular with regard to assistance to minorities in the recovery stage of crises. Durable solution options 92. States should fully comply with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Framework on Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons, paying particular attention to minorities. Minorities displaced internally or internationally during a crisis should be enabled and supported, without discrimination, to achieve long-term safety and security, enjoyment of adequate standards of living, access to livelihood and employment, effective and accessible mechanism to restore housing, land and property, access to personal and other documentation, family reunification, participation in public affairs and access to effective remedies and justice. Minorities should be provided assistance to return to their initial location as soon as circumstances allow, in a voluntary, safe and dignified manner, or be given the option to obtain alternative durable solutions for local integration or resettlement. 93. States should support minorities recovering from a crisis by carrying out a survey of intent on how they wish to re-establish their lives, whether by returning to their place of origin, staying in the present location or moving to an alternate place of their choice. Such surveys of intent should take into account varying opinions within each community, including the voices of women, the best interests of the child, the views of youth and older persons as well as of all persons still awaiting resolution of their displacement. 94. States should identify suitable and dignified alternative locations, including local integration and resettlement within the country, for minorities who cannot or do not wish to return to their original location owing to continuing hazards or threats or for other reasons. Alternative locations should enable the community to retain its integrity and, as far as possible, to continue their traditional means of livelihood. 95. States should ensure that, when resettlement of a population is unavoidable, they comply with all human rights standards and international humanitarian norms 17 and that the place of resettlement and ways of resettling are decided together with the population directly affected by the crisis as well as with the host community that is affected. When the host community is a minority in the country, it is particularly important to ensure that it is given a meaningful voice in the resettlement of other populations into their community and provided appropriate compensation and support. All parties should comply with the comprehensive refugee response framework annexed to the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, in particular with regard to support for host countries and communities.18 96. States should, with the support of civil society and the international community, ensure that communities and countries are appropriately prepared to host displaced populations, which could, in some cases, become new minorities. They should discuss the possible change in dynamics in their country or area, as well as potential benefits, in order to thwart xenophobia, racial discrimination and intolerance. 97. The United Nations and other development and humanitarian actors should support States in analysing local dynamics within host communities so as to anticipate any possible change in dynamics with the arrival of new communities displaced by crises. Both 17 18 See 1949 Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, art. 49; Additional Protocol I (1977), arts. 54 and 59; and Additional Protocol II (1977), art. 17. See General Assembly resolution 71/1, annex 1, para. 8. 15

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