UNITED NATIONS • Forum on Minority Issues that reflect the needs, expectations, priorities and agendas of the different minority groups in society and minority women belonging to these particular groups. These programmes could include training sessions tailored for minority women in leadership and negotiation skills, as well as in civic representation. 23. Governments should work together with minority communities, minority and women’s rights organizations to develop and implement programmes to sensitize minority women about their rights, and men about minority women’s rights. Carefully designed and implemented public sensitization programmes should also address discrimination and violence against minority women perpetrated by both majority communities and in minority communities. Such public sensitization programmes should be sensitively carried out so that they do not exacerbate discrimination against the minority communities. 24. Efforts to identify and address violence against minority women should be made in close collaboration with local and minority institutions and existing administrative structures. Governments should also ensure that their strategies to tackle violence against women include – and are culturally sensitive and relevant to – all women, including by reflecting the views, opinions and experiences of minority women, and make sure that they have full access to protection and effective remedies. Violence against women occurs in all communities, not only minority communities, and minority women have the right to protection as much as majority women. 25. Government and law enforcement officials, social workers, health professionals and other relevant actors should receive training on non-discrimination, women’s rights and violence against women, including domestic violence, and on the particular situation of minority women who may be disadvantaged or vulnerable. In areas where minorities predominantly live, public sector employees should be encouraged to have at least a basic knowledge of the minority languages. Governments should further ensure that officials who discriminate against minority women are effectively sanctioned. 26. Governments should conduct periodic reviews of the accessibility of key social services to minority women, with a view to identifying and removing possible barriers that may prevent minority women, including those who are victims of violence, from having access to remedies and protection. The provision of and access to refuges, shelters and social and health-care services should be culturally sensitive and secure. 27. Minority women and girls may be particularly vulnerable in conflict and post-conflict situations. Peacekeeping operations and national security forces working to secure peace in regions affected by war and/or rebellion should pay particular attention to the need to protect minority groups, including the specific needs of minority women and girls. Staff members, police and military personnel should receive training on the specific needs and vulnerability of marginalized minority women and girls, in particular with regard to the use of sexual violence as an 50 Compilation of Recommendations of the First Four Sessions 2008 to 2011