McDougall and to the groundbreaking work she did during her term as the first Independent Expert not only establishing the role and making this Forum a reality, but also ensuring that minority rights were successfully profiled and progressed, in sometimes sensitive and difficult circumstances and times. In my short intervention I will outline some relevant international and, also regional and national instruments, particularly at the European level, as well as making a few comments and drawing some conclusions and suggestions, a challenging job in the seven minutes available. International Instruments The relevant international instruments which address or have the potential to address the multiple intersecting discriminations experienced by women from minorities have already been included in your materials, so I won’t spend too much time on them. They include of course the Declaration on Minorities, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and other Covenants including the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Also important are the outcome documents of both the Durban and