A/HRC/43/42/Add.1 D. Education 117. Consistently implement inclusive education by increasing resources at “ordinary” and special schools to support reasonable accommodation, and train educators on the practical implementation of reasonable accommodation and provide assistive and adaptive devices at all schools. 118. Immediately improve the security infrastructure at all schools, including special education schools, where children with albinism are placed. 119. Incorporate accurate information on albinism in education curricula, and train educators on visual impairments, on diversity in disability and on health in general. E. Employment and adequate standard of living 120. Review and standardize the criteria for persons with albinism to access disability grants so that they meet the impairment test based on albinism per se. 121. Provide barrier-free access to skills development and entrepreneurship development programmes for persons with disabilities, including persons with albinism. 122. Supplement employment quotas on the hiring of persons with disabilities with widereaching training on the provision of reasonable accommodation in the public and private sectors. 123. Involve disability rights activists, including leaders of groups representing persons with albinism, in strategic initiatives on disability mainstreaming within the public sector and promote reasonable accommodation to dismantle the – often misguided – fears about hiring persons with disabilities. F. Representation 124. Include persons with albinism in decision-making that affects them, at all levels of government and in all programming for public consumption, including in the arts and culture. 125. Support organizations representing persons with albinism, particularly through funding for operations, and through training to develop their capacity to represent themselves in all relevant public arenas and particularly with regard to decisions that affect them. 126. Executive authorities in the public service, the arts and culture should be encouraged to continue to champion the inclusion of persons with albinism at the sectoral and programmatic level. 127. Train media outlets on humanizing the terminology in reference to persons with albinism, and to promote narratives that normalize persons with albinism, debunk myths and misbeliefs about them and enhance their inclusion in society. G. Destigmatization and awareness-raising 128. In consultation with civil society organizations representing persons with albinism, work on developing rights-based language to describe persons with albinism in all official languages, replacing dehumanizing terminology with humanizing and neutral terms that serve to explain the condition and highlight their dignity as persons. 129. Continue awareness-raising about albinism across the country, particularly at the local and rural community levels, with a particular emphasis in border towns; persons with albinism should be involved in this at all stages of the planning, development and implementation. 19

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