A/HRC/45/44/Add.2 121. The Government should adopt measures, including affirmative action policies, at all levels of education to recognize the existence and impact of structural discrimination, and to combat it. 122. The Government should ensure that quality education is accessible to and available to Afro-Peruvians, and particularly those living in rural and marginalized communities. The Government should support the significant investment and sacrifice that Afro-Peruvians make in sending their children to university, and should commit to making students at universities with lost accreditation “whole”, with alternative access to universities or an equivalent for formerly matriculated students. 123. The Government should revise and develop specific curricula and corresponding teaching materials that respect and recognize history, including the transatlantic trade in Africans, the role of Afro-Peruvians in the country’s independence, and their contribution to the development, diversity and richness of Peru. 124. The Government should ensure that textbooks and other educational materials reflect historical facts accurately, including tragedies and atrocities affecting AfroPeruvians, to avoid stereotypes and distortion or falsification of historical facts, which could stoke racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. 125. The Government should implement a public policy to reduce racial disparities and narrow gaps in access to health care and quality of care provided to Afro-Peruvians. 126. The Working Group urges the Government to adopt a systematic and more effective policy for fighting malnutrition and anaemia in Afro-Peruvian children. 127. In order to address racial disparities in employment, quotas and incentives should be effectively implemented within the private and public sectors. Educational interventions to build social capital, social networking and job readiness should be prioritized for all Afro-Peruvians. 128. The Government should ensure that Afro-Peruvians have access to adequate housing, including assisting in the formalization of title to their lands and designing programmes to address barriers, such as lack of credit, down payments, title or fraudulent deprivation. 129. The Government should invest in programmes, training, education and financial assistance to assist in the transformational potential of Afro-Peruvian communities, including farmers, to build their capacity for effective tourism, fair trade of marketbased products, and other retail sales and marketing of their products. 130. The Government should oversee the operations of agribusiness and curb exploitative labour and employment practices, unconscionable contracts, wage theft and the de facto extension of the workday without compensation or overtime pay. Agribusiness leasing, particularly in the region of Ica, should be fair and symmetrical with 15-year contracts for payment mirroring 15-year contracts to lease land using the same stable currency for all parties. 131. The Government should require that all environmental impact assessments include detailed information about the impact on Afro-Peruvian communities, including access to water. 132. Taking into account the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government should take emergency protection measures for the protection of the AfroPeruvian population as a vulnerable population group. Racially disaggregated data on the impact of COVID-19 must inform targeting of structural racism, which results in disproportionately poor health outcomes for Afro-Peruvians. 133. The Government should formalize the status of the National Afro-Peruvian Museum, and consider using the site in Lima named after the Afro-Peruvian poet and public intellectual Nicomedes Santa Cruz as a site of memory for a museum or other lasting institution. 19