2. Urges consideration of the recommendations of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action follow-up mechanisms contained in General Assembly and Council resolutions; 3. Recommends that States take measures to ensure adequate representation of people of African descent in the judiciary and other areas of the justice system, without prejudice to the principle of meritocracy, and calls upon States to identify factors that have resulted in the disproportionate number of arrests, sentencing and incarceration of Africans and people of African descent, particularly young men, and to take immediate and appropriate measures to eliminate those factors and to adopt crime-prevention strategies and programmes that include alternatives to incarceration; 4. Emphasizes the need to establish methods by which disaggregated information may be collected effectively on health, education, access to housing, employment, treatment in the criminal justice system, political participation and representation, with regard to, inter alia, Africans and people of African descent, and that such information provide the basis for the creation and monitoring of policies and practices that address any discrimination found; 5. Also emphasizes the importance of collecting disaggregated information and urges the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to provide support to the States that request it for the collection of such information; 6. Underscores the importance that States and international and regional organizations ensure that existing mechanisms for complaints for discrimination are accessible to Africans and people of African descent; 7. Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to compile a series of best practices in areas such as access to housing, education, health, employment and institutional and legal frameworks pertaining to Africans and people of African descent; 8. Decides to extend the mandate of the Working Group on People of African Descent for three years with the following mandate, to meet for two sessions of five working days each in closed and public meetings: (a) To study the problems of racial discrimination faced by people of African descent living in the diaspora and, to that end, gather all relevant information from Governments, non-governmental organizations and other relevant sources, including through the holding of public meetings with them; (b) To propose measures to ensure full and effective access to the justice system by people of African descent; (c) To submit recommendations on the design, implementation and enforcement of effective measures to eliminate racial profiling of people of African descent; (d) To make proposals on the elimination of racial discrimination against Africans and people of African descent in all parts of the world; 36