A/HRC/4/9/Add.3 page 29 discriminatory acts and practices including in the areas of employment, education, housing and social services. Legislation should be applicable to both public and private spheres. − Establish a statutory body, under anti-discrimination law, charged with monitoring and enforcing anti-discrimination legislation, and with the authority to receive complaints and issue legally binding decisions in cases of discrimination; − Undertake targeted policy initiatives at the federal and state level to address the unique circumstances of multidimensional discrimination experienced by minority women due to their gender and their status as members of disadvantaged ethnic groups; − Require the Ministry of Women’s Affairs to undertake a survey in each region of the traditional customary and religious laws and practices of all ethnic groups that impact on the constitutional guarantee of equality to women; − Ensure, in legislation and in practice, that protection of the property rights of women are equal to those of men, including rights to own and inherit property. In particular the rights to property of widows, divorced women, and those affected by conflict should be legally protected; Political participation − Ensure the representation of smaller and/or migrant communities from other states within regional councils, including through constitutional review. At the federal level, political bodies including the House of Federation should, to the fullest extent possible, ensure the representation of minority communities; − Promote measures to ensure the participation of women from minority communities in federal government bodies, and in all regions, in particular Somali, Gambella, Benshangul/Gumuz and Afar where representation of women is extremely low; Poverty − Fully implement the recommendations of the independent expert in her annual report to the Human Rights Council in March 2007 (A/HRC/4/9) in regard to minorities, poverty and the Millennium Development Goals; − Institute, in collaboration with the Central Statistical Authority, a programme of collection of data disaggregated by ethnic group so as to reveal inequalities across groups and allow for development of appropriate targeted poverty reduction strategies;

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