A/HRC/24/52 (k) Ensure curricula adequately reflect the diversity and plurality of societies. Education should be culturally relevant for children and young people of African descent, including in their own language where necessary; (l) Take measures to reduce the school dropout rate and improve the underachievement of children of African descent with greater support and attention given to families; (m) Adopt measures to increase the number of teachers of African descent working in educational institutions; (n) Promote access to new technologies that would offer people of African descent, particularly women, children and young people, adequate resources for education, technological development and long-distance learning in local communities; (o) Guarantee a smooth transition from early childhood to primary and secondary educational facilities without discriminatory competitive placement systems (e.g., common entrance examinations); (p) Provide sufficient budgetary resources and adopt measures, including affirmative action policies, at all levels of education for people of African descent, as a means for Governments to recognize the existence of structural discrimination and to combat it; (q) Improve quality standards of educational in public education systems; (r) Develop truly inclusive classroom pedagogy for all with culturally relevant curricula that celebrates the history and contribution of people of African descent; (s) Institute national systematic monitoring and evaluation of the negative effects of racism and discrimination on the educational progress of children of African descent, including an analysis of the intersectional effects of social class, gender, religion and geography. 69. Civil society and people of African descent groups should continue with the development of a collective vision and strategy for improving the access to quality education for people of African descent by empowering them through the right to education. 70. OHCHR should include in its anti-racial discrimination database information on existing legislation, policies and programmes for the promotion of equal access to education by people of African descent. C. 1. Cultural rights Conclusions 71. Cultural rights are inalienable human rights. 72. Recalling paragraph 99 of the Durban Declaration, in which States concerned are called upon “to honour the memory of the victims of past tragedies and affirm that, wherever and whenever these occurred, they must be condemned and their recurrence prevented”, States should adopt measures to preserve, protect and restore the intangible patrimony and spiritual memory of sites and places of the slave trade and slave resistance, giving increased visibility to this history and culture through museums, monuments, visual arts and other means, such as the permanent memorial at the United Nations headquarters to honour the memory of the victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. 16