A/HRC/10/29
5.
Urges States:
(a)
To ensure that everyone has the right to, inter alia, education, work, an
adequate standard of living, the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical
and mental health and to take part in cultural life, without any discrimination on the basis of
religion or belief;
(b)
To ensure that no one is discriminated against on the basis of his or her
religion or belief, in particular with regard to access to, inter alia, humanitarian assistance,
social benefits or the public service in one’s country;
(c)
To ensure that no one is affected, because of his or her religion or belief, in
the enjoyment of his or her economic, social and cultural rights by, inter alia,
discriminatory laws on housing, property or land trust, or any discriminatory practices;
(d)
To take the necessary measures, in accordance with international human
rights law, to combat discrimination based on religion or belief by non-State actors, with
particular regard to members of religious minorities and other persons in vulnerable
situations;
(e)
To devote particular attention to discriminatory practices against women on
the basis of their religion or belief that adversely affect the enjoyment of their economic,
social and cultural rights;
(f)
To ensure that appropriate legal and other remedies, in accordance with
international human rights law, are available to individuals in order to allow them to seek
redress against discrimination based on religion or belief that affects the enjoyment of their
economic, social and cultural rights;
(g)
To promote and encourage, through all available means, including education
and inter-religious dialogue, understanding, tolerance and respect in all matters relating to
freedom of religion or belief and religious tolerance, and to make all appropriate efforts to
encourage those engaged in teaching, as well as social workers, to promote mutual
understanding, tolerance and respect;
6.
Welcomes and encourages the continuing efforts of all actors in society,
including non-governmental organizations and bodies and groups based on religion or
belief, to promote the implementation of the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of
Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, and further encourages their
work in promoting freedom of religion or belief and in highlighting cases of religious
intolerance, discrimination and persecution;
7.
Requests the Special Rapporteur to submit her next annual report to the
Council at its thirteenth session;
8.
Decides to remain seized of the question of the elimination of all forms of
intolerance and discrimination based on religion or belief under the same agenda item.
44th meeting
27 March 2009
[Adopted by a recorded vote of 22 to 1, with 24 abstentions (see part II, chap. III). The
voting was as follows:
In favour:
Angola, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, India, Italy,
Japan, Mauritius, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Republic of Korea,
Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Uruguay;
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