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(k) Guarantee the freedom of religion or belief, including of pilgrims,
asylum-seekers, internally displaced persons, refugees, migrant workers and
their families, in situations of deprivation of liberty, with special consideration
for converts who may be targeted, including through provisions for dietary
preferences, access to religious texts and materials, access to religious or other
relevant ministry and adjustments for fasting requirements;
(l) Respect the rights of all protected persons, including detained persons,
to have, adopt, change and manifest their religion or belief in situations of armed
conflict, in accordance with the relevant provisions of international
humanitarian and human rights law;
(m) Guarantee the right to freedom of religion or belief of persons in
internally displaced person camps, refugee camps, asylum centres and analogous
areas, ensuring that any restrictions on the manifestation of religion or belief are
in line with the strict criteria established under article 18 (3) of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;
(n) Facilitate spaces and resources for communal manifestations of
religion or belief, provision for dietary preferences, access to religious materials,
access to religious or other relevant ministry and access to dignified funerary
services for pilgrims, asylum-seekers and refugees, internally displaced persons
and migrant workers and their families, in accordance with their religion or
belief;
(o) Respect, in all circumstances, the principle of non-refoulement on the
basis of conscience, religion or belief, including non-belief;
(p) Provide thorough training for functionaries involved in decisionmaking with regard to asylum applications, drawing on international best
practice, including UNHCR guidelines Nos. 6 and 10, and develop guidelines on
freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief, violations thereof and the
effects of those violations, which may rise to the level of torture or cruel, inhuman
or degrading treatment or punishment, or which may represent a threat to life.
In that connection, glossaries of terms relating to the right to freedom of religion
or belief and to knowledge of different religion or belief communities, to facilitate
understanding and disambiguate terms, should be developed and provided to
relevant functionaries;
(q) Ensure that, regardless of the presumed sincerity of sur place
conversions, thorough ex nunc evaluations of the potential threat posed to the
individual concerned on the basis of his or her perceived conversion and his or
her associated activities and behaviours are carried out;
(r) Ensure that all relevant functionaries are adequately familiar with the
risks faced by religious converts, atheists and humanists, those subject to
blasphemy or apostasy laws, and conscientious objectors to military service;
(s) Ensure that country of origin information includes an adequate
analysis of these issues and that all functionaries are regularly trained in
combating implicit bias, stereotypes and discriminatory attitudes on the basis of
religion or belief;
(t) Guarantee the full respect of the freedom of religion or belief of
migrant workers and their families, including through the provision of visas for
religious ministers and other religious workers;
(u) Take timely and robust action against hate speech targeted at asylumseekers, refugees, internally displaced persons, Indigenous Peoples, migrant
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