A/HRC/13/58 2. States must ensure that measures to combat terrorism do not discriminate, in purpose and effect, on the grounds of race, colour, descent, national or ethnic origin, as well as on religious grounds, bearing in mind in this context the intersectionality between racial and religious discrimination; 3. States must prohibit by law profiling based on stereotypes founded on grounds of discrimination prohibited by international law, including on racial, ethnic and/or religious grounds. 101. Chile, on behalf of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Switzerland and Uruguay, submitted the following proposal: Effective law enforcement of existing legislation is needed. Furthermore, improvements in police officers and other relevant training programmes for State agents as well as human rights education should be carried out. 102. Sweden, on behalf of the EU, submitted the following proposal: The sharing of best practices of comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation among States. 103. The OIC submitted the following proposal: The new instrument should provide for mandatory prohibition by law, in order to eliminate racio-religious profiling or profiling based on any grounds of discrimination recognized under international human rights law, with provisions for legal action against perpetrators, as well as legal guarantees to remedy and reparation for victims. 18. Racism in modern information and communication technologies (racial cybercrime) 104. Statements and/or text proposals were made by Nigeria (on behalf of the African Group), Sweden (on behalf of the EU), Brazil, the United States of America, and Pakistan (on behalf of the OIC). The following observer made a statement: Freedom House (see A/HRC/13/CRP.1). 105. Nigeria, recognizing that the European Council had done a lot of work on this issue, including a protocol on racial cybercrime, suggested that an additional protocol would be a good idea and could be modelled on the European protocol. 106. Sweden, on behalf of the EU, flagged the need to use the potential of the Internet to preserve an open environment instead of restricting the free flow of information by means of excessive legislation or technical measures. 107. 108. The EU submitted the following proposals: 1. States should ensure that any restrictions to the right to freedom of expression are only on grounds outlined in articles 19 (3) and 20; States should reassert that the right to freedom of expression constitutes one of the essential foundations of a democratic society, as it ensures individual selffulfilment and a pluralistic, tolerant society with access to multitudes of ideas and philosophies; 2. States should promote the positive role that new media, including the Internet, can play in the fight against racism. The African Group submitted the following proposal: 1. 22 Each party shall adopt such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to establish as criminal offences under its domestic law, when GE.10-10366