1. Targeted scholarships, training programs, internships, teacher incentives or community-specific programmes, 2. Multilingual education including adequate opportunities to learn their minority language or to receive instruction in this language as well as instruction in the state or official language • Empowering minority youth through positive measures creates a more diverse pool of talent within society that facilitates broader processes of integration Minority Migrants and Refugees • Migrants and refugees face many challenges and obstacles standing in the way of their socio-economic empowerment • Some of the additional barriers that confront them are: 1. Lack of identification or proof of residence 2. Financial barriers due to low incomes, limited savings, or discrimination in the labour market. 3. Lack of information about the availability of services or benefits in their host countries. 4. Inability to speak or understand the language of their host countries. • These barriers can have a cumulative and compounding effect on the well-being, integration, and dignity of migrants and refugees. • They can also violate their human rights and undermine the social cohesion and development of their host countries. • Therefore, it is important to adopt human & minority rights-based approaches to socio-economic empowerment that ensure safe, inclusive, and non-discriminatory access to services and benefits for all migrants and refugees, regardless of their migration status • Some examples of special measures to empower migrants and refugees include: o Taking all available steps to end statelessness, such as ensuring that no child is born stateless, implementing proper birth registration, ensuring equal access to documentation, and removing any ethnic, religious, linguistic or gender 3