A/HRC/10/62 page 21 (d) Governments should provide effective and adequate compensation, rehabilitation and remedies to the former patients who have suffered from forceful hospitalization. (e) Governments should provide effective protection to the leprosy affected persons from discrimination practised at employment, marriage, education, social life, public places and religious rituals. (f) Governments should formulate policies and action plans to end discrimination against leprosy affected persons through education, training and public awareness raising activities. (g) The residents of present as well as former leprosy hospitals, sanatoria and colonies should be entitled to continue to live, if they so wish freely, in the houses or other facilities even after their emancipation. (h) Any policy or programme affecting the life and well-being of leprosy affected persons and their families should be formulated and implemented with full participation of such affected persons. (i) Governments should adopt special preferential measures to encourage the employment of leprosy affected persons. (j) The World Programme for Human Rights Education launched by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 1 January 2005, and relevant national plans of action, should include education to provide accurate information about leprosy as a disease and to eliminate discrimination against leprosy affected persons. (k) The medical doctors, nurses, the academia and the media should actively contribute to rectify misunderstanding about leprosy as a disease. (l) The United Nations should designate 29 January as the UN Leprosy Day and organize seminars, meetings and other awareness-raising events including television, newspaper and magazine campaigns to provide the public accurate information about leprosy as a disease and teach not to discriminate against leprosy affected persons. -----