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language: this could include temporary special measures to promote the use of Cajun
French in smaller communities and the commitment of resources to renew exchanges
with related Cajun educational and other institutions;
(d)
Establishment of national standards for the funding of all public schools
in the United States to address more comprehensively and directly the inherently
systemic and discriminatory impact of locally based funding approaches to public
education, which continue to systematically disadvantage minorities from poorer
communities.
74.
To address the targeting of minorities in hate speech and hate crimes, the Special
Rapporteur recommends that the Government of the United States move to enact
legislation against hate speech and hate crimes on social networks in order to facilitate
processes for the deletion of hate speech and hate crimes postings and to make the
process more transparent, as well as to impose responsibility on social network
providers, including the amendment of section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
to remove general immunity for providers of social media platforms.
75.
The Special Rapporteur calls for the reform of the criminal justice system with
regard to the treatment of minorities, in particular by reducing the incarceration of
poorer minorities, including by eliminating cash bail for most low-level offences.
76.
With regard to religious minorities, the Special Rapporteur notes that there is
significant religious bias in the United States, which continues to affect religious or
belief minorities. In the absence of comprehensive national human rights legislation,
efforts must be made, at the very least, to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 so that it
covers discrimination based on religion or belief, in addition to race, colour or national
origin.
77.
In the area of environmental justice, the Special Rapporteur calls for a nationwide study and consultation process on “environmental injustice and discrimination”,
in particular as such injustice and discrimination affect minorities and poorer
communities most at risk both in overseas territories and mainland States, in
preparation of a national action plan to identify and prioritize the decontamination of
sites still threatening the water supply and the environment of minority groups,
including former sites and sites presently being used by the United States military.
78.
The Special Rapporteur also recommends that the Government of the United
States consider the following measures:
(a)
Adoption of a statelessness determination system so that many among the
more than 200,000 stateless individuals living in the United States, particularly
children, have a pathway towards citizenship for the effective protection of their human
rights, access to vital services and presence in the country;
(b)
Recognition of the Roma minority in the country and acknowledgment of
their historical presence, which would help to address existing negative stereotyping
and anti-Roma sentiment: the Roma should, among other needed measures, be included
as a distinct category in future censuses.
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