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.
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