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• Promote better knowledge of and respect for indigenous cultures and heritage
• Increase indigenous peoples' access to economic activities and level of employment
• Adopt policies promoting indigenous women and girls¡¯ rights
• Discourage racist demonstrations and acts that generate xenophobic behaviour and negative sentiments towards, or rejection of, migrants
• Promote education on the human rights of migrants and information campaigns on the positive contribution of migrants to the host society and the vulnerability of migrants
• Encourage respect for cultural diversity, promote fair treatment of migrants and refugees, facilitate integration and ensure that migrants are treated with humanity and receive legal protection
• Ensure that Roma/Sinti/Traveller children and youth, especially girls, have equal access to education including in their mother tongue; and encourage the media to protect them from racist, stereotypical and discriminatory reporting
• Guarantee the rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, individually to enjoy their own culture, to practise their religion, and to use their own language
• Take measures to prevent racial discrimination against persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities in respect of employment, health care, housing, social services and education, taking into account multiple forms of discrimination
• Mainstream a gender perspective in measures of prevention, education and protection aimed at the eradication of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
• Work to reduce violence, including violence motivated by racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
• Develop educational materials to teach young people the importance of tolerance and respect
• Establish and implement national policies and action plans to combat racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, including their gender-based manifestations

The DDPA is a victims centred document that emphasises the plight of victims of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.

The DDPA recognizes that it is impossible to design effective corrective measures and dismantle discriminatory structures and institutions without an honest assessment of the past, and without acknowledging the consequences of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and of enslavement and colonialism in present times.

The DDPA acknowledges that victims of racism and racial discrimination include

• Africans and people of African descent
• Asians and people of Asian descent
• Indigenous peoples
• Migrants
• Refugees
• Displaced persons
• Victims of human trafficking
• Persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities; including Roma, Gypsies, Sinti and Travellers

The Durban Conference also recognised with deep concern the increase in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, as well as violent movements based on racism and discriminatory ideas against Jews, Muslims, and Arab communities ¨C concerns that persist ¨C and in some countries have worsened.