A/HRC/13/58 4. Assess whether their current domestic institutions robustly enforce antidiscrimination laws, and determine actions necessary to fill any gaps in enforcement; 5. Assess whether domestic institutions appropriately enforce such antidiscrimination laws equally among members of all racial and religious groups within the State; 6. Establish, if one does not already exist, a national body or bodies responsible for ensuring the implementation of anti-discrimination laws, investigation of cases, maintenance of relevant statistics, reviewing allegations of failed or improper enforcement, and for bringing cases against individuals who violate the law; 7. Take effective measures to ensure equal access to governmental programmes or activities, irrespective of an individual’s race or religion; 8. Take effective measures to ensure that government officials in the conduct of their public duties do not discriminate based on an individual’s race or religion; 9. Take effective measures to ensure that members of racial or religious minority groups have equal access to housing, education, and employment; 10. Foster religious freedom and pluralism by promoting the ability of members of all religious communities to manifest their religion, and to contribute openly and on an equal footing to the public realm; 11. Encourage representation and meaningful participation of individuals, irrespective of their race or religion, in all sectors of society, especially in government; and 12. Undertake strong efforts to counter racial or religious profiling which is understood to be the invidious use of race, religion or ethnicity as a criterion in conducting stops, searches, and other law enforcement investigative procedures. The proposal was supported by the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Canada and Slovakia. 34. Nigeria, speaking for the African Group, contributed the following proposal, supported by the OIC: 1. States parties shall review and, as and where required, modify their laws, policies, and practices relating to migration, asylum, and citizenship, on the basis of relevant international human rights instruments, and not solely on the basis of security considerations; they shall notably avoid any criminalization or ethnic approach to such issues, thus making the said laws, policies and practices free from racial, religious and ethnic discrimination and compatible with State obligations as enshrined in international human rights instruments; 2. States parties shall take all other necessary actions to combat racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, in particular the new contemporary forms of racism, through specific measures and programmes, including in the areas of legislation, judiciary and administrative systems, education and information. The proposal was supported by Mexico and Ecuador. Argentina also expressed interest in the proposal. GE.10-10366 9