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66.
The Forum on Business and Human Rights and the Forum on Minority Issues
should make joint efforts to create a joint discussion about business and the human
rights of minorities.
67.
The Forum on Minority Issues should strengthen its efforts to provide a platform
for cooperation and dialogue on human rights.
68.
Members of civil society, including those belonging to minority groups, should
shift from competition to solidarity, which may also include creating an online global
platform that would allow civil society organizations to connect, to be informed about
existing initiatives, and ultimately to create opportunities to build solidarity so that they
can avoid working in silos.
69.
In order to maximize its effectiveness in the field of minority rights protection,
the United Nations should specifically target the regional specificities of minority rights
situations by creating stronger partnerships and increased synergies with
intergovernmental or transnational organizations at the regional level.
70.
Regional intergovernmental organizations should increase their efforts to
further the recognition, promotion and protection of minority rights and ensure
monitoring and reporting on their implementation.
71.
The United Nations network on racial discrimination and protection of
minorities should be more strongly engaged with the Forum on Minority Issues, which
might include reporting to the Forum about minority-related activities conducted by
each United Nations agency.
VI. Recommendations to respond to the urgent situations faced
by minorities
72.
States, the United Nations, international and regional organizations and civil
society should prioritize their efforts to develop social cohesion and resilience, and to
empower people and communities to recognize and respond to warning signs long
before hate crimes against minorities take place.
73.
States should develop effective mechanisms or strengthen existing mechanisms
to identify, respond to and impose sanctions for hate speech and incitement to
discrimination, hostility or violence targeting ethnic or national, religious and linguistic
minorities, including online and on social media platforms.
74.
States should strengthen their efforts to address loopholes in, and lack of effective
enforcement of, legislation and tolerance of the forced marriage of minority women and
girls, the incidence of abduction of minority girls and their forced conversion in
connection with a forced marriage.
75.
States should ensure that language policies are not based on the idea that
minority identities are a threat and must ensure that the policies are developed in
effective consultation with minority representatives and that they do not limit the rights
of minorities to preserve and develop their identity.
76.
States should increase their quotas to grant asylum to more refugees with
minority backgrounds in their respective countries and to allow special concessions for
refugees with minority backgrounds who may not have proper travel and identification
documentation owing to the conditions from which they were forced to flee.
77.
The United Nations and States should initiate consultations with minority
organizations on practical action for the protection of minority representatives
suffering from systematically targeted violent attacks.
78.
The United Nations, States and international and regional organizations should
strengthen their efforts to provide rehabilitation support to minority representatives
who have survived gross human rights violations.
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