A/HRC/4/111 page 11 28. We request States to carry out an in-depth evaluation of the concept of affirmative action and to review the procedures for establishing national bodies that work to combat racism and discrimination, in order to measure their capacity for impact and intervention and their fiscal fitness. We also request States to publicize the experiences of national bodies working against racism and discrimination; 29. We urge States to eradicate practices of barring entry on grounds of race or ethnicity to private places that are open to the public; 30. We request States to adopt without delay policies allowing full access to health care without discrimination; 31. We ask States to guarantee and recognize the traditional health-related knowledge of indigenous peoples and peoples of African descent.” Report of the mini-plenary meeting of the Southern Cone countries 25. The mini-plenary meeting of the Southern Cone countries submitted the following text: “1. We recognize that racism is part of the structure of social relations and that it generates racial inequalities, thereby reproducing patterns of concentration of wealth and power in historically privileged groups; 2. We ask States to include the issue of racial equality and efforts to combat discrimination in their intergovernmental discussions at the bilateral, regional and international levels and with donor countries and institutions; 3. We urge States to ensure respect for the human rights of migrants, particularly undocumented migrants, who are forced to migrate owing to economic, social and political imbalances linked to the globalization process; 4. We invite States to establish and implement comprehensive, intersectoral policies for combating violence that provide comprehensive protection for indigenous, Afro-descendant and gypsy adolescents and young people, as well as migrants, women and members of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual, transvestite and transgender community; 5. We urge States to draw up policies without delay for reducing cases of lethal violence against Afro-descendant and indigenous adolescents and young people, the majority of which are committed by State security forces, and to combat impunity for such crimes; 6. We urge States to ensure the right of every indigenous and Afro-descendant child and adolescent living in Latin America and the Caribbean, of whom there are millions, to survival and development, to learn how to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS, to grow up without violence and to be the absolute priority. This must be done by means of participatory models that promote self-esteem and a positive self-image and value ethnic and racial diversity, thereby reducing the historical consequences and intergenerational transmission of racism and discrimination;

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