A/HRC/45/44/Add.1 (o) Guarantee access to justice and reparations, including restoration, compensation, guarantees of non-repetition and rehabilitation, for Afro-Ecuadorians affected by extractive industries and transnational companies; (p) Audit and ensure environmental control of mining companies and other extractive industries with the active participation of Afro-Ecuadorians and civil society; monitor and control water quality and environmental impacts with the participation of the communities concerned; conduct investigations to establish criminal liability for human rights violations and environmental damage committee against Afro-Ecuadorian communities by companies; effect the closure of extractive companies that pollute the environment; and impose sanctions on institutions and authorities that have not complied with the law; (q) Ensure that Afro-Ecuadorians are consulted on and enjoy the benefits arising from the use of their territory; (r) Provide clean water and full access to free and adequate health services for victims; the authorities must recognize and fulfil their continuing duty to clean up and rehabilitate rivers and other bodies of water, and appropriate solid and liquid waste disposal and management systems must be put in place; (s) Ensure that State institutions take concrete action aimed at overcoming racism and discrimination, including the dispossession of lands and territories, and addressing the lack of enforcement mechanisms for participation and consultation and forced displacement; (t) Implement the recommendations of the Ombudsman’s report on the Furukawa case by (i) indemnifying the workers for the violation of their human rights; (ii) expropriating the land to be awarded to the workers, with support services to ensure productive use by the workers of the land; (iii) and closing the Furukawa company; (u) Ensure that (i) the births of the children of Furukawa workers are registered; (ii) identity papers are given to the Furukawa workers who lack them; (iii) the Furukawa workers and their children are given scholarships for schools and universities; and (iv) the Furukawa workers are given full access to health care, housing and the formal job market; (v) In keeping with racial and land justice, undertake the redistribution of lands, taking into account ecological, developmental or equity considerations, including Afro-Ecuadorians as beneficiaries; (w) Strengthen the Ombudsman’s Office to create a subdivision dedicated to the protection and promotion of the rights of people of African descent, with sufficient human, financial and technical capacities; (x) Implement Executive Decree No. 915 of 2016, on the International Decade for People of African Descent, and assess progress made in consultation with people of African descent; (y) Ensure that police and military academies include training and capacitybuilding to eradicate racism and comply with national and international human rights law; (z) Ensure that implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development truly leaves no one behind and that racial discrimination is addressed; include Afro-Ecuadorians and other people of African descent and develop specific programmes to protect their human rights; provide greater attention and resources for development programmes to address inequality and poverty through affirmative action and special measures for people of African descent specifically; (aa) Ensure that women of African descent are adequately protected from all forms of discrimination and violence, and are able to enjoy equal opportunities in access to employment, health and justice; 16

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