A/HRC/42/59 87. The Working Group encourages the disaggregation of official data by race, including for census data, household surveys and vital statistics, including by Eurostat and other official statistical collection programmes. 88. The Working Group urges Member States to take steps to ensure that social media platforms and other data-driven enterprises do not reinforce historical bias or accredit data reflecting racially biased policy and practices. 89. The Working Group calls on Member States to conduct race disparity audits and related analyses specific to people of African descent to better understand and address the racial biases in decision-making that are reflected in racial disparities. 90. The Working Group recommends the development of comprehensive and public databases and/or public data trusts wherein data from private and public sources could be accessed openly to drive research towards innovative understandings and solutions to promote access to and enjoyment of human rights for people of African descent. 91. The Working Group recommends that Member States and civil society adopt an ethical framework for data collection and usage that protects individuals from exploitation, prevents data initiatives from reinforcing historical bias and defines human subject research adequately broadly to address manipulation or crowdsourcing of information for profit by private companies. 92. The Working Group recommends increased racial diversity among data scientists working on addressing racial disparity and injustice. 93. The Working Group urges States to preserve and make available historical data linked to the trafficking of enslaved Africans and colonialism with the aim of achieving reparatory justice for people of African descent. Such data also includes data that link the role of non-State actors (such as universities, churches, companies, families and banks) to the trade in enslaved Africans and colonialism. 94. The Working Group recommends repatriation of, and/or digitization and open access to, records archives and primary data relating to the periods of enslavement and colonialism. It also recommends the declassification of colonial archives. 95. The Working Group recommends that relevant public and private institutions map, analyse and publish an honest accounting of the ways in which they profited from the trafficking of and trade in enslaved Africans. 96. The Working Group welcomes initiatives such as that of the University of Glasgow to make reparations for historical atrocities committed against people of African descent. It urges Member States to ensure reparatory justice in line with the Caribbean Community Ten Point Plan for Reparatory Justice, which includes full formal apology, repatriation, an indigenous peoples development programme, cultural institutions, alleviation of the public health crisis, illiteracy eradication, an African knowledge programme, psychological rehabilitation, technology transfer and debt cancellation. 97. The Working Group calls for Member States and civil society to address racially biased data and analyses that have contributed to mass incarceration, overpolicing and targeting of communities of African descent, and to ensure that the same biases are not embedded in computerized algorithmic systems. 98. The Working Group calls upon Member States to ensure that textbooks and other educational materials reflect historical facts accurately as they relate to past tragedies and atrocities, in particular the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans and colonialism, so as to avoid stereotypes and the distortion or falsification of those historic facts that may lead to racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, Afrophobia and related intolerance. 99. The Working Group urges States to adopt a human rights approach to data. Data must inform the development of legislation, policies and other measures aimed at addressing racism, racial discrimination, Afrophobia, xenophobia and other related 16