A/HRC/52/71 27. All States and the United Nations should act to protect and promote the right to self-determination of minority communities and develop a deeper understanding of this right. 28. All States should ensure that administrative procedures that were previously carried out face-to-face and are now being substituted by telematic services are accessible to linguistic minorities. 29. The “Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State Relations”, published by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in 2008, should be revisited by the United Nations to provide normative and practical guidance at the global level on the prevention and settlement of disputes involving minorities. 30. The United Nations is encouraged to review the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities with a view to mainstreaming in it an intersectional approach to minority issues and including in it specific provisions on minorities with disabilities. 31. United Nations human rights mechanisms should mainstream the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities in their jurisprudence. 32. The Human Rights Council should give more prominence to minority issues as part of the universal periodic review. 33. When it comes to legal and institutional frameworks for minority protection, States, the United Nations, regional organizations and civil society should address the gaps in the protection of the substantive rights of minorities, such as: (a) citizenship rights, including multiple citizenship; (b) economic rights, including land, with a focus on sustainable and inclusive development of minority regions while protecting the natural environment; (c) the right to participation in decision-making, which needs to reflect existing State practice with regard to norms of autonomy; and (d) gaps relating to the rights of religious minorities. 34. The United Nations human rights system should put in place protection mechanisms for minority rights in digital space and accountability mechanisms for holding perpetrators of online hate speech and violence responsible for their acts. 35. United Nations agencies should develop and enforce specific guidelines for identifying and supporting minorities who are internally displaced persons or refugees. 36. The United Nations system should provide adequate protection mechanisms for minorities facing multiple forms of discrimination, such as minorities that include lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons, and ensure that their rights are mainstreamed within the entire United Nations system. 37. United Nations agencies should regularly consult with minority organizations, minority human rights defenders, including former Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) minority fellows, who have both the human rights expertise and personal experience of minority issues. 38. United Nations country and regional offices should establish positions of minority human rights officer to advise, promote and monitor the implementation and mainstreaming of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities in the United Nations system. 39. The United Nations should prepare clear guidelines on mainstreaming minority rights before, during and after conflicts. 40. The United Nations should consider establishing a mechanism which would involve a review of the minority human rights records of all States Members of the United Nations. GE.22-29477 5