groups. Therefore special programs should be conducted with refugees, IDPs and stateless groups. ILO: is having a great commitment towards non-discrimination in labour rights: We would like the ILO to be more involved in education about the unacceptability of child labour, a problem that exists mostly in minority communities. Education about the unacceptability of child labour can be included in the curriculum of the schools as well as in the university. Awareness raising campaigns should be conducted among parents, which will ultimately help to implement an effective education strategy. WHO- Taking into account that minorities are one of the vulnerable groups which suffer from many diseases like HIV/AIDS and TB, the special awareness campaigns should be conducted among the minority groups of population. We have related “right to education with respect to health”. UNICEF- Some programs should be prepared for educating minorities on how to obtain birth registrations for minority children. If all children will be registered that will help all the member states also to have consolidated data and ease out the whole process to take further necessary actions. UNDP– Programs for the development of culture and tradition through education, income generating projects. Awareness campaigns for minority population to make them aware about the relationship between EDUCATION and DEVELOPMENT. In order to improve the educational situation of minorities, the UN Agencies should closely cooperate with the respective Government ministries (e.g. UNESCO-Ministry of Education, WHO-Ministry of Health, and ILO-Ministry of Labour etc.) to achieve constructive outcomes. Lastly, as per our understanding, the minority issues are most marginalized within all of the UN mechanisms. Most international conflicts and disputes involve minorities. It is extremely important and vital for disadvantaged minorities to be provided with a platform to speak up and raise their issues within the United Nations System. We all are assured that this new mechanism (Minority Forum) will address the issues and would be an opportunity for the minority people to make their voices heard and direct the UN system and its specialized agencies to work as stated in the “Minority Declaration”. We wish and request the authorities to give access to all unrepresented and disadvantaged minorities to be present here in the forum and to give appropriate time to NGOs to speak up, so that experts would be able to analyse the situation and would be able to make a regional strategy for further challenges. This is the forum for all of the world’s minorities, to eliminate the underrepresentation of minority groups here in this forum, we also request the authorities to make a Voluntary fund for Minorities (just like we have for Indigenous people), which would facilitate the participation of all minority representatives in the Forum, from all over the world. Closing our statement, we wish all the success to this Minority Forum in time ahead. We would like to thank you again for giving us this opportunity to share our views.

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