In my experience, the minority people in Nuba Mountains, Blue Nile, Abyei and Darfur are being oppressed by their own government and it has become obvious that the government does not respond to civil society organization or international treaties, even if they are signatories. In many countries like Sudan the constitution has no provision for women’s right, instead, it reflect institutional gender discriminationii. Therefore, these efforts must not cease. It is time, now more than ever before, to put an end to the humiliations against minorities in critical situations such as in the 10 countries ranked by the MRGiii as highest having most people under threat. The policies and legislation have been controlled by the fanatic leaders who do not have the political will to empower minorities, leave alone minority women, they also control the media and mislead the public including the international community. Therefore, transformation of legislations and policies in those countries and changing the leaders from dictatorship to democracy and to restructure the center of power is crucial. Otherwise the situation will remains the same despite all efforts being made by concerned bodies and institutions. In these cases, civil society organizations and NGOs need to be assisted to carry out their noble mission of transformation. Democracy in countries where there is a lot of minority groups often the minority groups are over looked if there is a large ethnically affiliated group, especially in Africa. There for there must be a system set up in these democracies that ensure a voice for these minorities and that promotes diversity of vote and not just voting for the person that is from the same tribe or ethnicity. Than minority opinion will be more important in Democracies. We also need to consider different contexts and local realities, while learning from countries with good practices. National/International human rights institutions, the private sector and other stockholders have the obligation to study obstacles and recommend legislative and policy reforms in line with the local context and assist in developing programs to guarantee the implementation of non-discriminative legislation with regard to such areas as minority women’s access to education and training, employment, social security, financial services and property ownership. Development agencies must have physical presence in the areas of minorities and should work in collaboration with Governments “having the political well” and civil society to identify barriers to development and remedy the root causes of multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination faced by minority women. This should result in their economic and social inclusion to ensure the full and effective participation in all programs or projects cycle that will affect minorities or the regions in which they live. They also need to interact with minority women and understand their challenges in order to come up with practical solutions that are sustainable and result oriented. In search for freedom and human dignity, we need to create an atmosphere that enables minorities deeply engaged in a political dialogue that will result in an umbrella for change and for democracy and equality. This should be supported by the international community such as the United Nations system, human rights mechanisms, Human Rights Council, MRG etc. with new approaches and values shared between national civil society organization and those

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