A/HRC/FMI/2012/2 Specialized agencies, including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), with field presences and staff who work with minorities may provide their experiences of how the Declaration has helped them to better understand the rights of minorities and incorporate them into programme work, as well as highlighting possibilities for developing their work based upon the Declaration. E. Regional intergovernmental bodies 16. Regional intergovernmental bodies will contribute their perspectives on how the Declaration has been used at the regional level, including in helping to shape regional human rights standards, in supporting legal cases relating to minority issues in regional courts and monitoring bodies, and in efforts to monitor the minority rights performance of States. Representatives may offer perspectives on possible future initiatives to promote awareness and use of the Declaration in the work of regional human rights bodies. Representatives of European, African, Latin American and Asian regional bodies, including the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the European Union, the Council of Europe, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (High Commissioner on National Minorities), the Organization of American States and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations will be invited to share their views. F. Young people from minority communities 17. Young people belonging to minority communities will attend the session and speak about what the Declaration means to them and their lives as young people growing up in diverse and multicultural societies. Questions for discussion will include whether the Declaration is still relevant and meaningful to them and how does it help to meet the challenges facing minorities and majorities in diverse societies today. What creative ideas do they have to help to ensure that the Declaration is implemented in their own societies and in others globally? What do they believe should be done to improve the situation of minorities and minority/majority relations now and in the future? VI. Format and agenda 18. The Forum has developed a unique format whereby participants comment on a set of draft recommendations prepared and circulated prior to the Forum session. The draft recommendations will be developed on the basis of information, surveys and studies received by the Independent Expert on minority issues. The session will be devoted to brief, targeted oral interventions commenting on specific provisions of the draft recommendations, limited to three to five minutes each. Participants will be invited to devise their contributions to help develop the draft as the subsequent outcome document. In addition to the draft recommendations, an annotated agenda and programme of work will be provided in advance of the session. 19. On the basis of the provisions of Human Rights Council resolutions 6/15 and 19/23 and in the wider context of promoting the implementation of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities in all regions, the focus of discussions during the session will centre on three core elements: • Identification of challenges and problems encountered with regard to practical implementation of the Declaration • Identification of good practices in respect to practical use of the Declaration for the protection and promotion of minority rights 5