A/HRC/4/19/Add.4 page 28 77. The Government, in line with the Palermo Protocol, has the obligation to ensure that migrant women are not forced into prostitution because of their socio-economic vulnerability. 78. The Government should ensure that there are sufficient resources at all levels of government, in particular locally, to assist and guarantee the rights of migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees as well as Roma and Sinti. 79. Italy should recognize the Roma and Sinti as national minorities, and protect and promote their language and culture. The Government should adopt a comprehensive national policy towards these communities, in particular to address their poor housing conditions, lack of documents, high dropouts of their children and their difficulties in accessing employment. Roma and Sinti should be among the priority beneficiary groups of social inclusion policies. 80. The Government should conclude bilateral agreements (intese) with those Islamic denominational organizations that have applied and fulfilled the requirements in accordance with the law. 81. The Government should adopt an ethical and cultural strategy guided by the promotion of mutual knowledge and interaction between the different communities. The combat against racism, xenophobia and discrimination should be linked to the long-term construction of multiculturalism by two fundamental elements: firstly, it should be recalled that Italy had traditionally been a country of migration and that Italian communities abroad have been successful in preserving their cultural identity and integrating in the countries of migration; secondly, owing to its history and geography, Italy has had profound human and cultural interactions with the Mediterranean countries. The interaction between the combat against racism, xenophobia and discrimination and the promotion of multiculturalism should lead to a process of constructing a new multicultural identity. 82. The long-term construction of an Italian multicultural identity should be reflected in Italian institutions and guide government policies and programmes, in particular in education, culture and information. 83. The Government could consider launching, with the participation of all media, a process of reflection on the role and responsibility of the media to combat racism, xenophobia and related intolerance and to foster the adoption of a code of conduct in that regard. -----