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and resolution, mediation, post-conflict reconstruction, peacekeeping, peacemaking and
peacebuilding;
(f)
Promoting the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination against Women and relevant resolutions of United Nations bodies,
including on situations of armed conflict;
(g)
Collecting reliable and, as applicable, disaggregated data to establish and
evaluate the impact of ongoing violence on persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious
and linguistic minorities, including the number of persons killed, injured, deprived of their
liberty or displaced, and subjected to sexual and gender-based violence;
(h)
Ensuring that those responsible for human rights violations and abuses against
persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities are held
accountable, that root causes are investigated and addressed and that victims have access to
adequate remedies and assistance;
(i)
Developing reconciliation and remembrance policies based on inclusive
dialogue that address past violence against and oppression of persons belonging to national
or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, thereby contributing to the prevention of the
most serious crimes while also ensuring that such initiatives complement and do not replace
judicial processes;
(j)
Facilitating the participation, as appropriate, of persons belonging to national
or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, including women, youth and persons with
disabilities, in the design, establishment and implementation of comprehensive transitional
justice strategies;
(k)
Enabling intercultural and interreligious dialogue for the recognition and
promotion of and respect for diversity, including as a critical tool for fostering mutual
understanding and the promotion of peace, sustainable development, peaceful coexistence,
conflict prevention and reconciliation processes in post-conflict societies;
7.
Invites international and regional organizations to increase efforts within their
respective mandates to promote and help to protect the rights of persons belonging to national
or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, and in this regard to take into consideration
relevant recommendations of the Forum on Minority Issues;
8.
Welcomes the fact that the fourteenth Forum on Minority Issues was fully
interpreted in sign language, and stresses the importance that discussions at the Forum remain
fully inclusive and accessible to persons with disabilities;
9.
Invites the Office of the High Commissioner, United Nations entities and
Member States to support and collaborate in the organization of regional forums on minority
issues in order to complement and enrich the work and recommendations of the Forum on
Minority Issues;
10.
Welcomes the inter-agency cooperation among United Nations agencies, funds
and programmes on minority issues, led by the Office of the High Commissioner, and urges
them to further increase their coordination and cooperation by, inter alia, developing policies
on the promotion and protection of the rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic,
religious and linguistic minorities, drawing also on relevant outcomes of the Forum on
Minority Issues and taking into account the work of relevant regional organizations;
11.
Notes in particular in this regard the initiatives and activities of the United
Nations network on racial discrimination and protection of minorities co-led by the Office of
the High Commissioner and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization and aimed at enhancing dialogue and cooperation between relevant United
Nations agencies, funds and programmes, and invites the network to continue to cooperate
with the Special Rapporteur on minority issues, the Special Rapporteur on contemporary
forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and other relevant
special procedures and treaty bodies, and to consult and engage with persons belonging to
national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities and civil society actors;
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