E/CN.4/2005/18/Add.6 page 12 contribute to the development of the Atlantic regions; the fields of competence of the agencies and organizations of the United Nations system are the social vectors of discrimination and racism: work, environment, land, education, health, culture, etc.; (e) The Government should take the necessary steps to speed up the process of demarcation of communal land and restore property rights to the affected groups, including those in Litelpaneca; (f) The Government should initiate the process of accession to ILO Convention No. 169 on indigenous and tribal peoples with a view to better safeguarding the land rights of such peoples; the law on the communal property regime should be effectively implemented, in particular through effective demarcation of communal land, by providing the Intersectoral Commission responsible for demarcation and granting of titles with the necessary human and financial resources; (g) The Bilingual Intercultural Education Programme should be effectively implemented, in particular as regards its educational and human resources, through the allocation of the requisite funds. In this context, the Parliament should adopt the necessary legislative measures for the proper operation of the Regional Autonomous System of Education devised by the Atlántico Norte and Atlántico Sur regional councils. Recommendations at the regional level 25. Efforts to combat racism and racial discrimination should take into account the regional dimension in Central America, where the societies share not only demographic, ethnic and cultural similarities, but above all a historical heritage of racism and discrimination, amplified by present-day political violence. The countries of this region are also characterized by movements of population groups which are victims of discriminatory practices to various degrees in the different countries. The Special Rapporteur consequently recommends that the Organization of American States (OAS), and in particular the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, should assign a central role in peace-building to the thoroughgoing eradication of racism and racial discrimination with a view to building democratic, egalitarian and interactive multiculturalism in the region. OAS should support the efforts of the Central American States by means of studies on the shaping of multi-ethnic identities and the manifestations of phenomena as well as assistance in the drafting of coordinated domestic and regional legislation, the strengthening of institutions for the protection of human rights and civil society, and the revision of educational and media programmes and systems. 26. OAS should also promote intercultural tourism centred on the following elements: the existence of a shared physical heritage, the vitality of authentic cultural and spiritual practices and forms of expression and their profound interactions in time and space. Intercultural tourism can make it possible to combat discrimination through the rehabilitation of identities that have historically been denied or scorned, to check the tendency inherent in modern mass tourism to treat culture as folklore, and to foster the fundamental link between land and culture, land and origins, which lies at the heart of the demands made by the indigenous communities and those of African descent.