A/HRC/42/59/Add.2 implements the strategic lines of affirmative action for Afro-Argentines, people of African descent and Africans in matters of the right to development, access to justice and recognition. The Working Group concluded that public policies aimed at ensuring non-discrimination and protection of the human rights of the population of AfroArgentines lacked effective enforcement. At the same time, the recognition of people of African descent in the 2010 census should be seen as the first step towards full institutional recognition of people of African descent as a distinct group. That would enable additional disaggregated data to be collected and analysis undertaken on the situation of their civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights, as well as the discrimination faced in the realization of those rights. The 2010 census was a sample collection of data and not integrated nationwide and as such underrepresented the real population of Afro-Argentines in the country. 50. The Working Group remains concerned about the human rights situation of people of African descent in Argentina who experience racism and racial discrimination. The prevailing narrative obscures the reality that the Afro-Argentine population has existed for many years, continues to struggle to be recognized in Argentine society, and that they continue to be perceived as foreigners in their own nation. The Working Group was informed that in Argentina there was a general idea that Afro-Argentines were only those with obvious African features. That idea does not take account of the Afro-Argentines who are now of mixed race to the extent that some do not have obvious African features, yet they self-identify as people of African descent, owing to their African ancestry, and must be recognized as such. People of African descent in Argentina have been historically invisible and Afro-Argentine communities are today seeking recognition of their presence and contribution to history and the national culture, and seeking to banish the myth that in Argentina there are no black people. 51. The Working Group observed that Afro-Argentines were among the poorest of the poor. It noted with concern that people of African descent in Argentina were not able to fully enjoy their economic, social and cultural rights. Structural racial discrimination prevents them from enjoying the minimum international standards for development, including those set out in the Sustainable Development Goals. 52. The Working Group learned of a draft law for the creation of a national institute of Afro-Argentine, Afrodescendent and African affairs. The draft law was submitted by Afro-Argentine organizations, persons of African descent and Africans who are part of the network “Commission November 8th”. The objective of the draft law is to create a State agency at the national level for the creation and implementation of public policies and affirmative actions aimed at the Afro-Argentine, Afrodescendent and African populations. At the same time, it seeks to recognize the contribution of persons of African descent to the national identity and promote their human rights. The creation of the institute is intended to contribute to the process of visibility and to reverse and repair the historical denial of the Afro-Argentine community, combat racism and racial discrimination and contribute to the generation of public policies for the inclusion of the community of African descent within the framework of the International Decade for People of African Descent (2015–2024). 53. The following recommendations are intended to assist Argentina in its efforts to combat all forms of racism, racial discrimination, Afrophobia, xenophobia and related intolerance. B. Recommendations 54. The Working Group recommends that the Government give effect to its national Afrodescendent programme and action plan to implement the International Decade for People of African Descent. 55. The Government of Argentina should consider the ratification of the InterAmerican Convention against Racism, Racial Discrimination and Related Forms of Intolerance. 14