· Trade and investment policies and agreements should move countries away from the imbalances and gaps of the currently prevailing regime. The ability of developing countries to use a mix of trade and investment policy tools necessary for them to promote the full participation of minorities in their economies should be supported. · Those States that have enjoyed a more powerful position in decision-making on global economic policies have had greater responsibilities in causing, through their actions and omissions, a global economic crisis. This means that they, in turn, carry greater responsibility in the mitigation of the consequences, and in steps needed to assure a just and sustainable way forward. To the United Nations Human Rights Council · Review and analyze the impacts of the financial and economic crisis on minorities, and cooperate with governments and international institutions to bolster the design, implementation and monitoring of human rights-led economic policy platforms. · Establish a multi-stakeholder Group of Experts on human rights responses to economic and financial crises, with the mandate to monitor economic policies, formulate recommendations on policy measures that could mitigate the impacts of the global financial crisis as well as ensure that the negative effects of future crises on the rights of minorities be prevented.

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