Check against delivery housing shortage, in particular in aboriginal communities, and at the high costs of rent and the impact thereof on women. Targeted recommendations The Committee has been very specific in its recommendations. The Committee has often urged Governments to take effective and proactive measures, including awareness-raising programmes, to sensitize public opinion at large on the issue of minority women. It also urged the State party to address the forms of discrimination including with regard to access to education, by minority women through its legal, administrative and welfare systems.( Greece) The Committee regretted the absence of any proactive measures in Japan, including a policy framework for each minority group, to promote the rights of minority women. The Committee urges the State party to establish a policy framework and the adoption of temporary special measures, to eliminate discrimination against minority women. The Committee also urged the State Party to appoint minority women representatives to decision-making bodies. The Committee was concerned about the multiple discrimination faced by migrant, refugee and minority women in Norway with respect to access to education, employment and health care and exposure to violence and recommended that it ensure that a gender dimension is included in legislation against ethnic discrimination. The Committee recommended that the Government of Denmark increase minority women’s awareness of the availability of social services and legal remedies. The Committee urged Canada to ensure that aboriginal, ethnic and minority women are empowered, through encouragement, mentoring opportunities and funding, to participate in the necessary governance and legislative processes that address issues impeding their legal and substantive equality. Conclusion NGOs working on minority issues and with minority women and who regularly share country specific information with the Committee, still highlight in their shadow reports or in their oral submission , the sense of marginalisation and exclusion these women feel as they attempt to