A/HRC/40/71 B. Recommendations Prevention of statelessness arising from conflicts, forced displacement and migration 55. States should prevent conflicts by promoting and protecting the rights of persons belonging to minorities. States should promote tolerance and support diversity and inclusion of minorities. States should include these concepts in human rights education and school curricula to prevent discrimination and combat stereotypes against minorities through education starting at an early age. 56. States should step up efforts to resolve existing protracted situations of statelessness which are left unaddressed and could lead to conflict and forced displacement. 57. States should combat hate propaganda and discrimination against minorities. All cases of hate crime, persecution and violence against minorities should be properly investigated and perpetrators should be punished. 58. States should identify and protect stateless minorities in a migratory context through the establishment of statelessness determination procedures that allow stateless persons to access basic rights. 59. States should refrain from arbitrary and discriminatory denial or deprivation of nationality of minorities, in line with international standards prohibiting the arbitrary deprivation of nationality and prohibiting discrimination on any ground. States should consider incorporating the prohibition of arbitrary and discriminatory denial or deprivation of nationality into their domestic legislation, as well as ensure that there is an effective remedy to address such cases. 60. States should take measures to ensure documentation and citizenship rights for minorities in the context of conflict, displacement and forced migration. 61. States are encouraged to set up national minority rights bodies and/or mechanisms tasked, among other things, to eliminate discriminatory practices and hate propaganda against minorities and to address statelessness of minorities, in particular in situations of conflict, displacement and migration. Possible solutions and redress 62. States should take active measures to address the situations of statelessness affecting minorities in situations of conflict and displacement and reform discriminatory citizenship laws. 63. States should include the affected minority communities in addressing statelessness of minorities and take necessary actions in consultation with the representatives of affected minorities. 64. States, the United Nations and the international community should step up efforts to combat racism, xenophobia and intolerance, which often are underlying factors for conflicts and ethnic tensions and can lead to situations of statelessness. 65. States, the United Nations and the international community should step up efforts to address systematic and ongoing situations of persecution, exclusion and marginalization of minorities. 66. States, the United Nations and civil society should continue to work together for the inclusion of minorities in the realization of the UNHCR “I Belong” global campaign to end statelessness by 2024. 67. Civil society organizations should continue their important functions as public watchdogs and raise awareness about human rights violations of minorities during conflicts, forced population movements and migration with the aim of combating such situations. 9