A/HRC/25/30 45. The Committee expressed concern about the unemployment, poverty, inadequate housing, and lack of educational opportunities available to ethnic minorities, in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and about the inability of persons belonging to minorities, including Kurds, Arabs, Azeris and Baluch, to fully enjoy their right to take part in cultural life. The Committee recommended to the State party to adopt a comprehensive anti-discrimination bill to protect minorities (E/C.12/IRN/CO/2, paras. 11, 12, 21, 23, 24, 29, 30 and 31). With regard to Rwanda, the Committee recommended that the State party should effectively implement measures aimed at ensuring that different ethnic groups could fully participate in cultural life and at promoting tolerance and understanding among different groups (E/C.12/RWA/CO/2-4, para. 28). The Committee urged Togo to combat harmful practices against minority girls and women and to guarantee to all ethnic groups the right to selfidentification (E/C.12/TGO/CO/1, paras. 14 and 35). 3. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 46. In its general recommendation No. 35 (2013) on combating racist hate speech, the Committee asserted that media representations of ethnic, indigenous and other groups within the purview of article 1 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination should be based on principles of respect, fairness and the avoidance of stereotyping. The media should avoid referring unnecessarily to race, ethnicity, religion and other group characteristics in a manner that may promote intolerance (para. 40). In general, the Committee is of the view that the relationship between proscription of racist hate speech and the flourishing of freedom of expression should be seen as complementary and not the expression of a zero sum game where the priority given to one necessitates the diminution of the other. The rights to equality and freedom from discrimination, and the right to freedom of expression, should be fully reflected in law, policy and practice as mutually supportive human rights (para. 45). (f) 82nd session (11 February–1 March 2013) 47. The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination voiced its concern regarding offences of defamation directed at persons belonging to ethnic groups in Algeria, and warned that Amazigh women risked being subjected to double discrimination on the basis of ethnicity and gender. The Committee urged the State party to incorporate the prohibition of racial discrimination into the Criminal Code and to take gender-related dimensions of racial discrimination into consideration as well (CERD/C/DZA/CO/15-19, paras. 12 and 17). Regarding the Dominican Republic, the Committee reiterated its recommendations on the collection of statistics according to ethnicity and on ensuring that deportation laws did not discriminate on the basis of ethnicity (CERD/C/DOM/CO/13-14, paras. 13 and 21). 48. In the report on Kyrgyzstan, the Committee recommended to the State party to promote inter-ethnic tolerance and to increase the political participation of minorities. Special concern was raised with respect to minorities facing lack of access to education, and exclusion based on linguistic grounds (CERD/C/KGZ/CO/5-7, paras. 9, 12 and 14). 49. In regard to Mauritius, the Committee encouraged the State party to guarantee the right of everyone to freedom of religion without distinction as to race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin; to address the underrepresentation of certain ethnic groups in private- and public-sector employment and in the field of education; to ensure that the right to self-identification is secured; to increase the representation of ethnic groups in appointed and public bodies; and to condemn, and take action to eliminate, ideas of racial or ethnic superiority (CERD/C/MUS/CO/15-19, paras. 10, 14, 15, 16 and 18). 50. With regard to New Zealand, the Committee expressed its concern at a racist political speech, and recommended that the State party intensify its efforts to promote 11