A/HRC/42/59/Add.1 B. Recommendations 74. The following recommendations are intended to assist Belgium in its efforts to combat all forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, Afrophobia and related intolerance. 75. The Government of Belgium should: (a) Adopt a comprehensive national action plan against racism, upholding the commitments it made in 2002 following the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. The action plan should be developed in partnership with people of African descent; (b) Adopt a national strategy for the inclusion of people of African descent in Belgium, including migrants, and create a national platform for people of African descent. The national strategy should be developed in partnership with people of African descent; (c) Establish an independent national human rights institution, in conformity with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles), and in partnership with people of African descent; (d) Consider ratifying the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families; (e) Implement the recommendations made by Unia, including those on combating racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance; (f) Fund creative projects by people of African descent, such as the House of African Culture, with the aim of raising the visibility of all forms of African expression and preserving the history and memory of the African diaspora; (g) Endow university chairs in African studies throughout Belgium and prioritize the hiring of faculty members of African descent so as to foster research, aid the dissemination of knowledge in this area and diversify Belgian academia. The Working Group recognizes the prominence of the Royal Museum for Central Africa as a research institution and its potential to facilitate the development and inclusion of scholars of African descent in Belgian academia; (h) Ensure funding for anti-racism associations run by people of African descent to enable them to be partners in combating racism. The Working Group also recommends inclusive financing mechanisms for entrepreneurs of African descent; (i) Encourage further, durable commemoration of the contributions of people of African descent, and the removal of markers of the colonial period; (j) In consultation with civil society, give recognition and visibility to those who were killed during the period of colonization and to Congolese soldiers who fought during the two world wars, and acknowledge the cultural, economic, political and scientific contributions of people of African descent to the development of Belgian society, through the establishment of monuments, memorial sites, street names, schools and municipal, regional and federal buildings; (k) Issue an apology for the atrocities committed during colonization. The Working Group recommends reparatory justice, with a view to closing what is a dark chapter in Belgian history and as a means of reconciliation and healing. The right to reparations for past atrocities is not subject to any statute of limitations. The Working Group recommends the Caribbean Community’s 10-point plan for reparatory justice as a guiding framework; (l) Establish a truth commission. The Working Group supports the bill laid before Parliament in 2017 on a memorial workplan to establish facts and the involvement of Belgian institutions in the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi; (m) 16 Ensure full access to archives relevant to research on Belgian colonialism;