A/HRC/16/29 18. According to Article 9, wherever possible, the agencies and bodies of the United Nations system shall contribute to the full realization of the Declaration. III. The United Nations Guide for Minorities (2001) 19. The aim of the United Nations Guide for Minorities is to assist minorities in understanding how to seek protection of their rights through the different procedures existing at the international and regional levels. Practical advice is given on how to take legal action where members of minorities consider that their rights under a particular treaty have been violated. The first part of the Guide contains the text of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities and the text of the Commentary to the Declaration. 20. The second part, which consists of a series of pamphlets, covers the following thematic areas: (a) Minorities, the United Nations and Regional Mechanisms: this section offers an overview of the purposes and structure of the United Nations and then describes in greater detail those bodies that are likely to be the most important in promoting and protecting the rights of persons belonging to minority groups. The second section provides a brief outline of human rights norms and international law, so that minority rights may be understood in their proper context. (b) The United Nations Working Group on Minorities: this pamphlet describes the creation, composition, mandate and functions of the United Nations Working Group on Minorities. It points out that the Working Group on Minorities was established by the Sub-Commission on Promotion and Protection of Human Rights to ensure more effective protection of the rights of persons belonging to minorities. (c) The Charter-based system of the United Nations: this pamphlet outlines ways of addressing the human rights situation in any Member State of the United Nations through mechanisms created by United Nations organs. These mechanisms are referred to as “Charter-based”, since the authority to create them stems from the United Nations Charter. (d) Human Rights Treaty Bodies and Complaint Mechanisms. The pamphlet describes six of the major international human rights treaties, outlines the system of State reporting common to all human rights treaties and suggests ways in which minorities and their representatives can raise their concerns before international treaty bodies. Finally it describes complaint mechanisms that are available under four of the treaties to individuals who believe their rights have been violated. The Guide also gives details of the efforts being undertaken by United Nations organizations, agencies, programmes and funds to promote and protect minority rights. An updated version of the Guide is currently under preparation and should be made available in the near future. IV. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization: The Human Rights of Linguistic Minorities (2001) 21. “The Human Rights of Linguistic Minorities and Language Policies” is a collection of articles published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in the International Journal on Multicultural Societies. It focuses on the governance of linguistic diversity. This material analyzes linguistic rights from a comparative perspective in the European Union, South Africa, Central Asia and Baltic States. It emphasizes the similarity of problems faced by governments in adopting linguistic legislation in different regions; at the same time, it highlights specific historical conditions leading to regional differences in Governments' regulation of language use. The articles collected highlight context-specific problems of effectively implementing the human rights of linguistic minorities and focuses more on attempts by Governments to strike a balance 6