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(c)
Take steps to empower religious or belief minorities to claim all of their
human rights and fundamental freedoms (including those recognized by the SDGs) by
recognizing the right of persons belonging to these groups to determine and freely and
peacefully practice their own religion or belief, alongside their culture and language,
and other traits of their identity, in public and in private, alone and in community with
others;
(d)
Adopt comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation, prohibiting direct
and indirect discrimination, harassment and failure to make reasonable
accommodation on the basis of religion and all other grounds recognized by
international law and in all areas of life regulated by law;
(e)
Enhance the understanding of and accountability for the realization of the
right to freedom of religion or belief among members of the judiciary and state officials
working in oversight and administrative human rights mechanisms;
(f)
Ensure the effective participation of marginalized religious or belief
groups by generating specific mechanisms and arrangements at different levels of
decision-making in order to overcome the impediments that persons belonging to these
groups face in their efforts to play an effective part in the life of the community;
(g)
Take steps to establish monitoring and accountability mechanisms that
take stock of the impact that interventions for advancing the SDGs are having on target
populations, including religious or belief minorities. The development of universally
applicable and contextually relevant structural, process and outcome indicators can be
used assess the legal and policy determinants of discrimination and inequality for
religious and belief minorities, as well as the outcomes of interventions and gaps to
address these;
(h)
Create institutional mechanisms, statistical capacity and policies to gather
disaggregated data to allow for in-depth analysis of human rights and development
enjoyment across different population groups, including religious or belief groups; such
mechanisms should be used to further enhance the capacity of States to report on the
enjoyment of the right to freedom of religion or belief in accordance with international
human rights reporting obligations and to report on progress in implementing the
SDGs;
(i)
Implement effective measures to promote mutual respect for the human
rights of religious or belief minorities, including through peer-to-peer learning,
practical outreach tools, capacity-building programmes and interdisciplinary research
on questions related to faith and rights.174
81.
The Special Rapporteur recommends that National Human Rights Institutions
(i)
support the work of States to monitor and report on discrimination, hate
crimes and inequalities. NHRIs should monitor and collect data on inequalities and
disparities in accessing a broad range of civil, political, economic, social and cultural
rights amongst persons belonging to religious or belief minorities and disaggregate such
data;
(ii)
advance human rights education including literacy on freedom of religion
or belief as protected under international human rights law;
(iii) identify affirmative actions that may be essential to empower religious or
belief communities that have suffered on account of historic discriminatory practices.
82.
The Special Rapporteur recommends that civil society organizations, including
faith-based organizations
(i)
increase monitoring on inequalities in attainment of the SDGs based on
religion or belief, including by collaborating with development actors, international
human rights organizations and UN entities;
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See Collonges Declaration, p. 4 of https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Press/faith4rights-toolkit.pdf.