A/HRC/59/62 52. The Special Rapporteur recommends that States: (a) Centre the lived experiences of affected persons and groups within the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of all elements of an intersectional approach and gender perspective, through ensuring their full, effective and meaningful participation in all policy, legal and other decision-making spaces; (b) Improve the accessibility of policy, legal and other decision-making spaces through the provision of any necessary reasonable accommodations and by addressing any barriers to access faced by those with experiences of intersectional discrimination; (c) Integrate systemic, racial and historical analysis into the development, implementation and monitoring of all responses to racism and intersectional discrimination; (d) Ensure that comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation, which includes the recognition and prohibition of multiple and intersectional discrimination, is in place; (e) Ensure that the process of legally defining multiple and intersectional discrimination is grounded in the lived experiences of all affected persons and groups through their full and effective participation in relevant legislative processes; (f) Step up efforts to effectively implement laws and policies addressing discrimination; (g) Ensure comprehensive consideration of intersectional discrimination in the design and implementation of all special measures; (h) Consult with and seek the active participation of persons and groups affected by systemic racism and intersectional discrimination in the design and implementation of special measures, in line with an overall approach to intersectional discrimination that is centred around the lived experiences of affected persons and groups; (i) Raise public awareness about the importance and role of special measures to combat intersectional discrimination and systemic inequalities to tackle growing pushback; (j) Ensure the collection of comprehensive data disaggregated on the basis of race, ethnicity, caste and all intersecting grounds for discrimination and develop data systems that can capture multiple and intersectional forms of discrimination and provide meaningful insight into the full and varied experiences of affected persons and groups (in this respect, quantitative data can be complemented by qualitative data on lived experiences of intersectional discrimination); (k) Ensure that all data-collection activities are conducted in line with international human rights law provisions and relevant guidance, including “Disaggregated data to advance the human rights of people of African descent: progress and challenges” and “A human rights-based approach to data: leaving no one behind in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”; (l) Provide disaggregated and intersectional data in reports to the United Nations human rights monitoring bodies, including treaty bodies, special procedures and the universal periodic review; (m) Guarantee that those from marginalized racial and ethnic groups, including caste-oppressed communities, who experience intersectional discrimination can access effective remedies; to be effective, such remedies must be intersectional in that they reflect the full extent of experiences of discrimination and the resulting harms; (n) Address the structures of oppression and correlative privilege that perpetuate systemic racism and intersectional discrimination through the development and implementation of comprehensive and intersectional reparatory GE.25-07755 17