A/HRC/45/44/Add.2 106. The important role of the Office of the Ombudsperson in monitoring the situation of human rights of people of African descent should be recognized and adequately funded, with stable and ongoing support from the State. The Working Group encourages the Government to implement the recommendations made by the Office in its report on the National Development Plan for the Afro-Peruvian Population. 107. Peru should fully implement its anti-discrimination regulatory framework, including by promoting public awareness of this form of social protection and raising awareness of how to submit claims, and also of the imposition of sanctions where appropriate. 108. Action should be taken to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas to benefit Afro-Peruvians. 109. The Government should recognize collective rights for Afro-Peruvian people, and include specific protections for Afro-Peruvians in the national action plan on business and human rights. 110. The Government should ensure that all public institutions incorporate systematically an ethno-racial variable in administrative record-keeping and datacollection methods. 111. The Working Group urges the Government to facilitate reparatory justice for Afro-Peruvians and to consider adopting the Caribbean Community Ten Point Plan for Reparatory Justice. 112. In its bicentennial plans, the Government should, in consultation with civil society, recognize and render visible Afro-Peruvians who fought in the fight for liberation. The State should also acknowledge the cultural, economic, political, scientific and intellectual contributions made by Afro-Peruvians through the establishment of monuments and memorial sites, and by renaming streets, schools and government buildings in their honour. 113. In preparing for the next census, and other public research and administrative data, the Government should further clarify the variable of mestizo. The Working Group recommends (a) a follow-up inquiry among self-identified mestizos into the multiple ethnicities/races that comprise their self-identity; (b) a mechanism allowing people to identify with multiple racial or ethnic categories in the census and other surveys incorporating self-identification, thereby eliminating the forced choice between Afro-Peruvian and mestizo; or (c) a similar data-driven intervention to improve the accuracy of data pertaining to Afro-Peruvians. 114. All administrative records should include and standardize the self-identification variable, as defined by the National Institute of Statistics, both within government agencies and with respect to those using public services. 115. The capacity of each sector to collect and use data should be developed in favour of their role to promote the human rights of people of African descent. 116. The census sample designed by the National Institute of Statistics should consciously facilitate analysis of data pertaining to Afro-Peruvian communities (with respect to, for example, poverty and education) regionally and locally, not just nationally. 117. The Working Group urges political leaders and government officials to refrain from using hate speech against Venezuelan migrants. 118. The Government should financially support and draw upon existing academic research on the Afro-Peruvian community. 119. The Government should adopt measures to increase the number of teachers of African descent in educational institutions. 120. The Government should enact new preventive and affirmative public policy to address the high dropout rate of Afro-Peruvian children and the lack of vocational, technical and higher education. 18