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promote understanding, tolerance and mutual respect across communities as well as to
eliminate the possible recruitment or exploitation of young people by groups that promote or
incite violence.
36.
National human rights institutions should consider establishing special units,
sections or expertise on minority issues within their structures to ensure engagement with
minority communities and monitoring of situations of potential threats and to support the
implementation of human rights programmes in close contact and consultation with
minority communities. National human rights institutions should be empowered to establish
complaints mechanisms, accessible to persons or groups belonging to minorities, under
which violence or the threat of violence may be addressed.
37.
Public and private media bodies and sources should ensure minority representation
and be accessible in different minority languages. Media bodies and sources must guarantee
that they do not contribute to or allow hate speech and incitement to hatred or crimes of
violence. Independent media monitoring bodies, including representatives of minorities,
should be established to monitor media, social media and online output and, where
necessary, raise concerns relating to incitement to violence with appropriate national
authorities.
38.
Minority groups and national non-governmental organizations should be aware of
existing regional and international mechanisms in place and their potential role in
preventing violence against minorities. Civil society should bring issues of emerging
national concern to the attention of regional bodies and the international community.
3.
Recommendations to regional and international actors
39.
Regional human rights bodies should systematically pay attention to minority issues
and potential threats to specific minorities within their work, including in the context of
their monitoring of the implementation by States of regional and international standards.
They should address specific questions to States on the situation of minorities and engage
States on the nature of alleged threats or violence against minorities and on constructive
ways of managing diversity as a preventive strategy.
40.
Regional bodies should consider establishing specific regional mechanisms for the
consideration of minority issues, including working groups, rapporteurs or other appropriate
mechanisms that have the authority, inter alia, to undertake country visits and analyse
situations where minority rights concerns exist. Coordinated regional early warning and
urgent action mechanisms should be established and provided with adequate financial
resources in order to respond quickly and appropriately to emerging situations of tension
and prevent or limit their escalation into violence, serious human rights violations, or
conflict.
41.
International and regional organizations should increase their capacity to provide
technical assistance to States, including in the fields of minority issues, non-discrimination,
prevention of conflict and violence, and training of officials and law enforcement bodies.
They should assist national authorities to disseminate and monitor implementation of
regional and international norms and standards relevant to the protection of minorities from
atrocity crimes, to deepen knowledge of the specific nature of atrocity crimes and to set up
rules for mapping and assessing national capabilities in the institutional and judicial system.
International and regional organizations should foster trust in the process of providing
technical assistance and in the actors taking part in it and encourage close diplomatic
relations with States in order to promote the delivery and implementation of such technical
assistance.
42.
The United Nations and its regional and subregional partners should improve their
collective ability to prevent effectively and respond to future risks of serious violations of
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