A/HRC/32/50 prevention of, and redress for, inter alia, any form of propaganda designed to promote or incite discrimination based on indigenous identity or origin (art. 8). 11. International frameworks specifically applicable to refugees, stateless persons, internally displaced persons, migrant workers, women and children all contain relevant provisions to combat forms of discrimination that may be rooted in xenophobia. The International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families guarantees a minimum universal standard of human rights protections irrespective of the migrant workers’ legal status. States parties are under a positive obligation to ensure equality of treatment with that of nationals in areas including social security benefits (art. 27), detention (art. 17), emergency medical care (art. 28) and the child’s right to access education (art. 30). Furthermore, all migrant workers are entitled to treatment not less favourable than that of nationals with respect to remuneration, conditions of work and terms of employment (art. 25). The Committee on Migrant Workers has called upon States parties to take effective measures, such as hate crime legislation and raising public awareness, to combat all manifestations of racism, xenophobia or related intolerance against migrant workers and members of their families. 12. The Convention relating to the Status of Refugees prohibits States parties from discriminating against refugees on the grounds of their race, religion or country of origin (art. 3). The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has found that negative public attitudes towards refugees and other vulnerable foreign nationals threaten efforts to protect these groups, and has called for the enactment of hate crimes legislation and measures to promote tolerance, in the framework of the fight against xenophobia. 13. Article 3 of the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons prohibits discrimination against stateless persons on the basis of their race, religion or country of origin. Article 9 of the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness prohibits States parties from depriving any person or group of their nationality on racial, ethnic, religious or political grounds. The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement state that internally displaced persons “shall not be discriminated against in the enjoyment of any rights and freedoms on the ground that they are internally displaced”. 14. A number of the conventions of the International Labour Organization also prohibit discrimination, including the Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111), which protects all workers — nationals and non-nationals alike — from discrimination in equality of opportunity in regard to employment or occupation. The Migration for Employment Convention (Revised), 1949 (No. 97) prohibits discrimination against migrant workers on the basis of nationality (art. 6). Article 3 of the same Convention places an obligation on the State to take all appropriate steps against misleading propaganda relating to emigration and immigration. The Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189) obliges the State to address the particular vulnerabilities of migrant domestic workers to discriminatory practices. 2. (a) Regional legal and policy frameworks Inter-American system 15. The Organization of American States has significant legally binding instruments that are central to combating xenophobia and its manifestations. The Charter of the Organization of American States proclaims the fundamental rights of the individual without distinction as to race, nationality, creed or sex. 16. Article 1 of the American Convention on Human Rights prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or 6

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