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(d)
States should expand access to education in minority languages through
mother tongue instruction and bilingual or multilingual programmes;
(e)
States should support minority-led non-governmental schools, based on
human rights principles, enabling them to offer free and culturally relevant education
aimed at preserving and promoting the cultural, linguistic and religious identities of
minorities;
(f)
States should promote the recruitment and training of educators from
minority communities, along with culturally responsive teacher training for all
educators, to ensure better representation of persons belonging to minorities in the
educational community and to promote understanding and responsiveness to the needs
of minority students in classrooms;
(g)
States should implement specific programmes to address the compound
challenges faced by persons with multiple intersectional identities, such as women,
persons with disabilities and LGBTI persons who belong to minority groups: these
measures could include scholarships, tailored programmes and resources to ensure
equitable access to quality education for all.
V. Recommendations addressing challenges to minority
representation in the media, including social media
12.
The Special Rapporteur proposes the following recommendation addressing
challenges to minority representation in the media, including social media:
(a)
States should establish diversity requirements for public broadcasters and
offer support to minority-led media outlets and productions; such requirements ensure
proportionate and unbiased representation of minority groups in media content,
promoting their cultures, histories and identities, while allowing minorities the
opportunity to exercise self-representation;
(b)
States should dedicate appropriate funding to develop opportunities for
minority-led media outlets, ensuring that they have the resources to thrive and amplify
diverse voices;
(c)
States should enact and enforce legislation to prohibit hate speech in
traditional and social media, while also monitoring and correcting algorithmic biases in
social media platforms to prevent the amplification of discriminatory narratives;
(d)
The media and social media companies should develop clear and
enforceable guidelines to counter hate speech against minorities and should be held
accountable for violations of human rights on their platforms, in accordance with the
Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights; the media and social media
companies should also develop and implement comprehensive training programmes for
journalists, content creators and moderators to identify and counter hate speech;
(e)
States should allocate resources to develop public awareness campaigns
and school programmes that educate citizens about harmful bias against minority
groups; such campaigns should highlight the positive aspects of diversity and emphasize
how differences enrich societies, fostering mutual respect and coexistence;
(f)
The media and social media platforms should actively promote diversity
by ensuring diverse representation in content creation, advertising and leadership roles,
as well as leveraging algorithms to amplify content from underrepresented groups;
(g)
Independent bodies should be established at the national level to monitor
media content for bias, misinformation and hate speech; civil society organizations
should complement those efforts by tracking representation trends and advocating
media practices that promote and represent diversity in society and self-representation
of minorities.
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