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others with information and encouragement. Mutual support, community and friendshipare keys to healing. The knowledge, experience and skills of traditional healers also needto be acknowledged and drawn upon.There must be sufficient funding and other resources to ensure that services canrespond promptly to demands in ways which ensure realisation of the right of selfdetermination,which are culturally appropriate and which ensure equality of access forall. Services must be adequately resourced so that they can be flexible enough to take intoaccount the many and diverse ways in which the removal policies have affectedindividuals, families and communities.Endnotes1 The Human Rights Committee’s 1994 General Comment on article 27 states that, ‘The enjoymentof those rights may require positive legal measures of protection…’ (UN DocumentCCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.5, 26 April 1994).2 Ibid.