A/HRC/19/71 discrimination against them. States should consider issuing a national status report or a white paper on the status of minority women. 19. Governments should evaluate and, where necessary, improve minority women’s access to information, including with regard to such areas as service provision, social and child services and health care. Where appropriate, this should be provided in their mother tongue and to those living in remote regions, and should include measures to facilitate access to and use of new information technologies, including social media. 20. Governments should take measures to identify and integrate consideration of minority women and the intersectional dimensions of discrimination, as well as a gender and minority perspective, in all national programmes, policies and initiatives relevant to minorities. Decisions on policy choices should be fully transparent and made with the full and effective participation of minority women. Obstacles preventing minority women’s participation in decision-making should be identified and addressed by prioritizing the development of a systematic and consistent approach to identifying, evaluating, monitoring and eliminating existing forms of discrimination against minority women and girls. 21. Governments should systematically include principles of gender equality in their planning and budgeting processes and policies, and allocate adequate resources to projects to address the priorities of minority women. Where they have gender-sensitive budgets, Governments should ensure that these include minority women, as should Governments where they have budgets for minorities or marginalized groups. 22. Governments should build multidimensional partnerships at the national and local levels with ministries, training institutions, parliaments, minority groups, women's organizations and, more broadly, civil society organizations operating at policy or community levels. When working on gender equality and minority rights, all should collaborate in the development of clear, long-term strategies and programmes 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 6