A/HRC/55/47/Add.2 (i) Confront discriminatory anti-migrant and racist rhetoric that has marred politics and media and creates fear and a sense of lack of belonging for some religious communities, inhibits public participation, leads to underreporting of incidents, puts asylum-seekers at risk of refoulement, including regarding sur place or other conversions, and creates a climate conducive to disinformation campaigns. Rights are to be guaranteed by law, not trampled on for political ambition; (j) Establish independent and specialized institutions that meet international standards for carrying out work to counter hate speech, and accessible mechanisms for religious and belief communities and civil society organizations to be able to report hate speech based on religion or belief; (k) Expand awareness-raising initiatives addressing discrimination and intolerance, recognizing that they transcend religious and ethnic distinctions, and further promote religious literacy and literacy of freedom of religion or belief; (l) Train teachers to teach the importance of freedom of religion or belief for a pluralistic, diverse Swedish society that welcomes all, as part of or alongside citizenship education; (m) Regularly collect disaggregated data relating to religion or belief to help address the serious underreporting of violations of freedom or belief, help authorities to become aware of its prevalence, and provide an empirical basis for developing policies to enhance enjoyment of this right; (n) Ensure that the country’s multi-tiered governmental financial support for faith, which is an international good practice, is not distorted through discriminatory assumptions about different groups or politicized. Notwithstanding challenges, foreign funding for religious activities should not be considered suspect if it is legal; (o) Continue to strengthen regular engagement and dialogue with faith communities and interfaith organizations at every level of government in an environment of trust-building and open exchange, which, among other things, stimulates religious communities and civil society organizations to report all instances of discrimination to the authorities, including the police and local authorities; and facilitate and encourage interfaith initiatives, especially those rooted in the community and set up by faith communities and civil society organizations themselves; (p) Continue to work towards ratification of the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169) of the International Labour Organization, while considering further measures to strengthen the access of the Sami people to influence, participation and livelihoods in full respect of their freedom of religion or belief; and take all necessary measures to ensure that Sami remains and sacred objects are repatriated to Sápmi; (q) Strengthen the institutional setting of human rights protection, including by taking all measures necessary to allow the Swedish Institute of Human Rights to discharge its mandate in full compatibility with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles). GE.24-04001 19

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