A/HRC/45/44/Add.2 and mistreatment. Afro-Peruvian women detailed their experiences of racialized harassment in reporting sexual assault and domestic violence to the police. 96. Afro-Peruvian LGBTI persons experience exclusion, invisibility and sexual violence. Transgender persons specifically lack protection. 97. Climate change has had an impact on Afro-Peruvians, particularly peasants and others living in rural and coastal Peru. The country is also susceptible to natural disasters, such as floods, drought, earthquakes and landslides. In addition, mitigation measures, such as the widening of rivers, are being implemented without consultation with or participation of the Afro-Peruvian communities affected. On a positive note, Peru recently passed a law to create an institutional framework to address climate change. Afro-Peruvians should be actively consulted in its implementation and progression. 98. Portrayals of people of African descent that invoke long-held racial stereotypes and racial bias, including the use of blackface and practices that reduce Afro-Peruvians to a negative or ancillary status, are evident in the advertising of consumer products and in programming. B. Recommendations 99. The Working Group makes the recommendations below to assist Peru in its efforts to combat all forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, Afrophobia and related intolerance. 100. The Working Group reiterates the recommendations made by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, namely, that Peru should adopt a comprehensive national policy against racism and racial discrimination that will promote social inclusion and reduce the high levels of inequality and poverty affecting Afro-Peruvians (CERD/C/PER/CO/22-23, para. 13). 101. The Afro-Peruvian Policy Directorate of the Ministry of Culture should receive adequate, dedicated, multi-year funding to support its efforts and leadership on behalf of Afro-Peruvians. 102. Competent agencies in each sector and at every level of government should designate specific personnel and funding to implement policies promoting and protecting the rights of Afro-Peruvians. 103. In the national policy on mainstreaming an intercultural approach, the Government should clarify the funding, personnel and other resources that will be allocated specifically to Afro-Peruvians, and what measures will ensure that AfroPeruvians are visible and benefit from the policy. 104. The Government should revise its anti-discrimination legislation to conform with Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination general recommendations No. 35 (2013) on combating racist hate speech and No. 25 (2000) on the gender-related dimensions of racial discrimination in policies and strategies for combating racial discrimination. Article 323 of the Penal Code should be revised in accordance with the existing proposed text shown to the Working Group by the Office of the Public Prosecutor. 105. The National Institute for the Defence of Competition and Protection of Intellectual Property and the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, and the Ethics Tribunal of the National Society of Radio and Television should use outcomes as their primary criteria of success, and revise procedures to create adequate deterrents to ongoing use of racist imagery by the media. While the law criminalizing discrimination is under review, the Public Prosecutor should consider whether such racism is cognizable within the existing text or suggest modifications in order to target intractable misconduct that has not been deterred by fines, public apologies or other civil interventions. 17