Be gender-sensitive and promote gender' equality in both enrolment and achievement; adequate attention must be given, to the situation of girls in some countries but also to the growing disadvantage of boys in uppersecondary and higher education throughout the region. On the basis of our field experience we would like to propose a number of recommended actions for the Forum's consideration. We call on Governments and societies to: Openly confront discrimination, introduce and enforce legislation prohibiting it, and implement initiatives to combat exclusion faced by women and girls, ethnic and indigenous groups, the disabled as well as those who live in poverty. Targeted initiatives to address exclusion faced by women and girls, ethnic and indigenous groups and the disabled are needed, along with legislation to prohibit discrimination. In relation to this taking account of the view of the Committee on the Rights of the Child that State Parties need to identify those individual children and groups of children who require, special measures aimed at overcoming inequalities. This would involve rigorous disaggregated data collection to enable discrimination, or potential discrimination, to be identified. Take into account that the non-discrimination principle further necessitates consideration of multiple facts of discrimination experienced by some children. It requires that particular attention should be given to girls in order to ensure that they enjoy their rights on an equal basis to boys. Invest in teacher training, including training of teachers from minority communities, to include anti-discrimination, gender sensitive and intercultural training. Educational curricula should promote human rights education and gender aware materials with the aim of overcoming stereotyped and demeaning images of minorities, girls and women. We in UNICEF are also aware of the need for us to invigorate and scale up our initiatives. Since our participation in the Forum last year, the previous Independent Expert, Ms. Gay McDougall and the Executive Director of Minority Rights Group, Mr. Mark Lattimer, met with the UNICEF Executive Director to discuss a