UNITED NATIONS • Forum on Minority Issues
(e)
Increase minority leaders’ effectiveness in government through training, and
the training of trainers for the organizations of minorities, on legislative processes,
drafting, debate, coalition-building, advocacy, strategic planning and public
speaking; they should involve members of the majority in training to strengthen their
support for the participation of minorities;
(f)
Cooperate with other stakeholders to advocate appropriate legal reforms to
advance the role of minorities in government.
E.
United Nations human rights mechanisms
38. Relevant treaty bodies and special procedures should continue to pay
attention to the effective political participation of minorities and the obstacles to the
effective realization of their rights during their dialogue with States parties on the
implementation of their treaty obligations, as well as the measures taken to eliminate
all forms of discrimination. They should encourage States parties to involve minorities
in all stages of the monitoring and implementation process of international treaty
obligations.
F.
The international community and
United Nations agencies
39. The international community should allocate sufficient resources to projects
aimed at ensuring political participation of minorities, enhancing civic engagement
and education and promoting issue-based advocacy by minorities. A United Nations
voluntary fund for minorities should be established with a mandate to channel support
for such initiatives.
40. All intergovernmental structures that engage with civil society at the global and
regional levels should take concrete steps to ensure that persons belonging to
minority groups are able to participate in those processes.
41. United Nations agencies should support the implementation of
recommendations of United Nations human rights mechanisms relating to the
political participation of minorities by, inter alia, ensuring the translation of
recommendations into minority languages and their broad dissemination and
facilitating the use of the recommendations by all relevant actors at the national level,
taking into account the observations and recommendations of United Nations human
rights mechanisms and procedures when preparing United Nations planning
instruments, such as the Common Country Assessment/United Nations Development
Assistance Frameworks and agencies’ specific programmes.
42.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights should:
(a)
Sponsor training workshops to support the implementation of the United
Nations Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic,
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