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communities are excluded from national or international support. They should also
reinforce national capacities through technical assistance, in particular with regard to
assistance to minorities in the recovery stage of crises.
Durable solution options
92.
States should fully comply with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Framework
on Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons, paying particular attention to
minorities. Minorities displaced internally or internationally during a crisis should be
enabled and supported, without discrimination, to achieve long-term safety and security,
enjoyment of adequate standards of living, access to livelihood and employment, effective
and accessible mechanism to restore housing, land and property, access to personal and
other documentation, family reunification, participation in public affairs and access to
effective remedies and justice. Minorities should be provided assistance to return to their
initial location as soon as circumstances allow, in a voluntary, safe and dignified manner, or
be given the option to obtain alternative durable solutions for local integration or
resettlement.
93.
States should support minorities recovering from a crisis by carrying out a survey of
intent on how they wish to re-establish their lives, whether by returning to their place of
origin, staying in the present location or moving to an alternate place of their choice. Such
surveys of intent should take into account varying opinions within each community,
including the voices of women, the best interests of the child, the views of youth and older
persons as well as of all persons still awaiting resolution of their displacement.
94.
States should identify suitable and dignified alternative locations, including local
integration and resettlement within the country, for minorities who cannot or do not wish to
return to their original location owing to continuing hazards or threats or for other reasons.
Alternative locations should enable the community to retain its integrity and, as far as
possible, to continue their traditional means of livelihood.
95.
States should ensure that, when resettlement of a population is unavoidable, they
comply with all human rights standards and international humanitarian norms 17 and that the
place of resettlement and ways of resettling are decided together with the population
directly affected by the crisis as well as with the host community that is affected. When the
host community is a minority in the country, it is particularly important to ensure that it is
given a meaningful voice in the resettlement of other populations into their community and
provided appropriate compensation and support. All parties should comply with the
comprehensive refugee response framework annexed to the New York Declaration for
Refugees and Migrants, in particular with regard to support for host countries and
communities.18
96.
States should, with the support of civil society and the international community,
ensure that communities and countries are appropriately prepared to host displaced
populations, which could, in some cases, become new minorities. They should discuss the
possible change in dynamics in their country or area, as well as potential benefits, in order
to thwart xenophobia, racial discrimination and intolerance.
97.
The United Nations and other development and humanitarian actors should support
States in analysing local dynamics within host communities so as to anticipate any possible
change in dynamics with the arrival of new communities displaced by crises. Both
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See 1949 Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, art. 49;
Additional Protocol I (1977), arts. 54 and 59; and Additional Protocol II (1977), art. 17.
See General Assembly resolution 71/1, annex 1, para. 8.
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