A/HRC/23/56/Add.2 persistent racism experienced in education. Financial support should be provided to Roma organizations, including the small and local ones. Efforts for a better recognition of the Roma culture and identity should be strengthened, including through school curricula teaching Roma history and more opportunities to study Roma languages. 67. There is also a need to urgently put an end to the housing segregation and forced evictions of Roma settlements and to find immediate and long-term solutions to the problems of adequate housing and access to services for the Roma. The Government should find a comprehensive solution for the victims of forced evictions. In this regard, adequate information, genuine consultation and effective participation of the victims are important. 68. While the Special Rapporteur is aware that Spain is facing a difficult economic and financial situation, he recommends that the Government ensure that policies be developed so that the Roma are not disproportionately affected by budget cuts, and the necessary resources are provided for the implementation of these policies. 69. The Special Rapporteur urges the Government to improve the situation of nonSpanish Roma and to strengthen measures to ensure that non-Spanish Roma also enjoy human rights without discrimination. 70. The effective participation of the Roma in public and political life should also be increased. The Government should ensure constant dialogue between the Roma and public institutions, and increase efforts to make the political participation of the Roma more accessible. In this regard, the Special Rapporteur recommends, inter alia, that each autonomous community select a Roma representative for the State Council, for the Roma to ensure they are adequately represented. On migrants 71. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Government provide adequate funding for migrants’ integration policies, and ensure that budget cuts do not impact disproportionately programmes set up for migrants. He also recommends that the Government ensure that austerity measures introduced are not discriminatory. The Government should also ensure that the Forum for the Social Integration of Immigrants is maintained, as it is a good practice, and it should be provided with the necessary support, including financial, human and technical. The rolling back of gains in the human rights of migrants in the context of the economic crisis is indeed a major concern that the Government should urgently address. In this regard, concrete and effective long-term human rights measures should be adopted by the central and regional governments to address the challenges they face, including the de facto segregation of migrants’ neighbourhoods, racial violence and their living and working conditions, as well xenophobia and racism in the field of education, employment, housing and access to public services. He also urges the Government to solve, as a matter of urgency, the human rights situation of migrants working in the agricultural area, with a special attention to those vulnerable women victims of trafficking, sexual exploitation and de facto prostitution in this context. This long-term problem affecting several provinces in Spain should be addressed in a comprehensive manner in conformity with international human rights standards and in close cooperation with NGOs and civil society actors. 72. The Special Rapporteur deeply regrets the amendments introduced by Royal Decree-Law No. 16/2012 which curtail the right of undocumented migrants to access to public health services as provided in several international human rights instruments ratified by Spain, including article 12 of the International Covenant on 17