two
bilingual
Slovenian-‐Hungarian
schools
in
Gornji
Senik/Felsöszölnök
and
Stevanovic/Apátistvánfalva
(from
Slovenia).
The
two
recommendations
noted
were:
to
reconcile
policies
related
to
ethnic
Hungarians
abroad
with
neighbouring
countries
primary
responsibility
for
minority
protection
(from
Norway)
and
to
revoke
the
condition
which
requires
a
minority
group
to
have
lived
in
the
county
at
least
one
hundred
years
in
order
to
be
considered
a
national
minority,
in
line
with
the
recommendations
of
the
Committee
on
Economic,
Social
and
Cultural
Rights
(from
the
Russian
Federation).
Lithuania
Lithuania
received
20
recommendations,
accepted
15
and
noted
5.
The
general
recommendations
accepted
included:
to
guarantee
the
protection
of
national,
ethnic,
religious
or
linguistic
minorities
(from
Switzerland);
to
strengthen
government
policy
aimed
at
ensuring
inter-‐ethnic
harmony
and
culture
diversity
(from
Belarus);
to
develop
public
awareness
campaigns
to
combat
manifestations
of
discrimination
and
racism,
including
xenophobia,
homophobia,
anti-‐Semitism,
and
other
forms
of
intolerance
in
order
to
further
protect
and
strengthen
the
rights
of
members
of
minority
groups
(from
the
United
States);
to
support
and
develop
educational
programs
and
institutions
for
national
minorities
(from
the
Russian
Federation);
and
to
develop
a
close
dialogue
with
all
minorities
regarding
language
education
issues
(from
Norway).
Several
recommendations
focused
on
Roma
which
included:
to
address
the
problem
of
Roma
children
dropping
out
of
school,
and
promote
the
Roma
language
in
the
school
system
(from
Iran);
to
establish
emergency
measures
aimed
at
integrating
Roma
children
in
regular
schools
and
solve
the
problem
of
the
drop-‐out
rate
of
these
children
(from
Uruguay);
to
use
more
actively
existing
or
new
platforms
for
involving
the
Roma
community
in
policy
formulation,
implementation
and
actively
pursue
an
increase
in
the
number
of
Roma
in
all
public
institutions
(from
the
Netherlands);
to
further
consider
measures
to
secure
the
integration
of
the
Roma
community
(from
Sweden);
to
implement
policies
and
actions
aimed
at
the
effective
integration
of
the
Roma
community
which
would
include
the
employment,
education,
security,
social
and
health
sectors,
emphasis
on
the
promotion
of
the
Roma
language,
and
the
regularization
of
their
identity
documents
(from
Mexico);
to
continue
to
fund
programs
aimed
at
integrating
Roma
and
take
further
steps
to
address
the
on-‐going
social
exclusion
of
Roma
(from
Australia);
and
to
reinforce
policies
for
the
integration
of
minority
groups,
particularly
Roma,
in
line
with
CERD
recommendations
(from
Chile).
Other
2
specific
recommendations
were:
to
swiftly
implement
the
Law
of
Compensation
of
the
Immovable
Property
of
the
Jewish
Religious
Communities
of
Lithuania
(from
the
United
Kingdom)
and
to
enact
a
more
robust
set
of
policies
and
procedures
to
combat
47