residence and ensure that they become more autonomous. The best means of ensuring high quality teaching and to eliminate obstacles for attendance for girls and minorities and of African descent is to ensure that there is high quality education because education is a development tool. Madam Chair, looking at the recommendations our working group in its various sessions has been keen to make recommendations on a number proposals on the inclusion of girls of African descent in the educational systems in their countries. It would be essential to formulate recommendations and specific strategies on the right to education for girls from minorities and to provide legal responses through positive action, overcoming illiteracy, language barriers and poverty. Also adopting specific measures targeting disadvantaged groups in order to mitigate or eliminate the condition which perpetuate discrimination, encouraging girls to get in to the educational system also combating signs of mandatory discrimination in all of its forms which are based upon on link to descendants, sometimes as we refer to as “Afrophobia” for persons of African descent. States must take their responsibilities and ensure their responsibilities to all these communities. They must encourage literacy for girls and women of African descent so that in future the effective participation of women and girls in real economic policy can be ensured. Significant commitments need to be made, promises must be a thing of the past, and things must be done. We must have a road map and we must monitor disaggregated data, which take account of all ethnic categories on the basis of age and geographical representation. Madam Chair, it will be important at the end of this forum for us to be able to take account of the situation of women and girls in all sectors and also take account of the need to continue the work we have been doing and to implement the recommendations emerging from this forum.