A/HRC/39/69 prosecuted, while also ensuring that women and girls of African descent are not subject to forced marriage and female genital mutilation. Similarly, Ms. Petrus-Barry stated that submissions also called for the inclusion of the rights of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in the draft declaration, as well as positive measures to reduce the inequalities that marginalize communities of African descent. 45. The draft declaration should re-assert the human right to health and well-being, and highlight new global risks, such as climate change, environmental degradation and pollution, and urban migration. It should also call upon States to take appropriate steps to ensure that people of African descent are fully and effectively included in the schemes of universal health coverage and the public health system. In the same connection, the draft declaration should call upon States to adopt specific programmes with the aim of further decreasing the incidence of the diseases referred to in target 3.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals among people of African descent. In terms of substance abuse, the declaration should aim at prevention and treatment of the abuse and providing ways for the reintegration of substance abusers with other members of society. Reproductive health provisions should include reducing global maternal mortality and the preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age within the population of African descent. States should also support a multinational team of healers to develop pan-African black psychology treatments and healing protocols to address the psychiatric damage stemming from the dehumanizing assault of the colonization and enslavement of peoples of African descent. 46. Submitting entities also called upon States to document the number of people of African descent living in areas that were likely to be affected by climate change and to develop national preventive measures, including putting in place disaster management programmes aimed at protecting people. States were called upon to develop educational programmes aimed at raising the awareness of people of African descent of climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning. In the draft declaration States should be encouraged to take all necessary steps to eradicate hunger and poverty, while ensuring an increase in the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale producers of African descent. 47. According to the submissions, the draft declaration should encourage Member States to develop legislation and land reforms to ensure adequate housing and the land rights of people of African descent, especially pursuant to Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, general recommendation No. 34 (2011) on racial discrimination against people of African descent. Similarly, employment should also be available to people of African descent without discrimination, as required by the International Labour Organization (ILO) Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111). The draft declaration should include provisions regarding improvements in antidiscrimination legislation and its enforcement in employment, by focusing on and addressing multiple forms of discrimination, such as discrimination based on race, colour, gender and disability. In their submissions, entities also emphasized the right of people of African descent to be able to establish and manage their educational systems and institutions, providing education in their own languages in a manner appropriate to their cultural methods of teaching and learning. The rights and freedoms and corresponding State obligations outlined in the draft declaration should also include cultural rights, such as the right to engage in and teach African religions and spiritual practices. In that connection, States should also be encouraged to promote and fund academic and research endeavours related to African history. Ms. Petrus-Barry also shared submissions pertaining to the need to establish positive measures. The draft declaration should include similar provisions for people of African descent who experience multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination based on sexual identity, gender expression, religion or belief (art. 14 of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action), national or ethnic origin and all other forms of protected identities. The declaration should advocate for the repeal of discriminatory laws on any of those protected grounds. 48. During the interactive dialogue, the representative of the United States shared its best practices on promoting tolerance, non-discrimination and inclusivity, as well as protecting and promoting the human rights of people of African descent, including freedom 13