A/HRC/49/44 (d) Ensure the effective participation of minorities, including religious or belief minorities, in peace-making, peacebuilding, and transitional justice processes, recognizing that this should be mainstreamed in moving beyond a negative peace to a sustainable, positive peace. Recalling U.N. Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000), women must have a role in promoting and maintaining peace and security. (e) Guarantee full and unconditional access for humanitarian actors to all populations requiring assistance, without discrimination and with due attention given to religious or belief minority groups. (f) Ensure effective access to remedies and reparations for victims of human rights violations, consistent with international principles and guidelines,193 and protection in doing so, including by prosecuting violence against minorities during conflict or insecurity perpetrated by State officials or other parties. Measures must be sensitive to how deliberate targeting of people based on their faith identity cause distinctive harms. (g) Ensure that the repatriation of religious or belief minorities displaced by conflict and insecurity, either internally or internationally, is always voluntary, safe, and sustainable. States should pay particular attention to community integration of returnees or refugees and ensure that victims of violence have adequate financial and psychological assistance available. (h) Consider diverse structural causes of harm, including exploitation of political, economic, social, and civic governance failures to incite violence, in order to inform actionable pathways to peace and security, while tracking progress publicly. Such efforts flow from Agenda 2030 commitments and ensuring that States “leave no one behind.”194 (i) Facilitate early warning and response systems through violence prevention strategies encompassing the most at-risk communities, including gendering of early warning systems to protect at-risk women.195 (j) Provide fair, non-discriminatory, and transparent processes for accessing citizenship; establish collaborative, consultative mechanisms at the national and local level for members of minorities so they can effectively influence decision-making on issues that directly affect them; and ensure a fair gender representation through special measures. (k) Establish frameworks that allow individuals and groups to hold, change or determine their own religious or belief identities; recognizing and protecting those that exist. (l) Implement educational programs, peer-to-peer learning and awareness-raising campaigns - including through the media - to promote mutual respect, religious diversity and human rights, with built-in feedback loops measuring impact. 79. United Nations, multilaterals and the donor community should: (a) Avoid broad generalizations about the relationship between religion and conflict. Policymakers should be aware of the risks of “religionizing” situations and inadvertently perpetuating the preferred narrative of a conflict party. (b) Increase support for local civil society organizations advocating for human rights, including of religious or belief minorities. Local organizations may supply grounded solutions, document violations and build capacity of at-risk groups, helping to break cycles of hate that State or non-State actors direct towards religious or belief minorities. (c) Ensure relevant field-based U.N. entities have sufficient dedicated expertise on minority rights, including religious or belief minorities, and understand their integral relationship and links with broader U.N. priorities including conflict prevention and the Sustainable Development Goals. (d) Be aware of and mitigate risks associated with collection, storage and use of attributable data sets, which may be used to discriminate against or otherwise harm religious 193 194 195 A/RES/60/147. https://unsdg.un.org/2030-agenda/universal-values/leave-no-one-behind. CEDAW/C/GC/30, para.33. 21

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