A/HRC/19/71 equal participation of minority women. Programmes for employers to assist them to fight discrimination or to raise cultural awareness, mentoring and positive action in recruitment should be considered. 89. Governments should facilitate minority women’s access to microcredit to allow them to establish small business initiatives, and design training programmes on how to effectively use microcredit and run businesses. 90. Minority women may face challenges relating to property rights and barriers to their ownership of land and property and their control of assets in some minority communities owing to certain factors, including traditional and customary practices and inheritance laws that assign property rights to men. This can leave minority women highly vulnerable. Governments should work together with minority communities, their leaders and minority women to eliminate traditional and cultural practices that discriminate against women and create inequalities in such areas as access to land and inheritance rights of minority women. Governments should also ensure that property and inheritance laws safeguard fully the rights of minority women. 91. A review of service provision to minority communities and needs assessment projects should be undertaken in order to reveal priority areas of concern relating to minority women. Governments should establish national programmes that facilitate access for all, including minority women, to basic health and social services without discrimination. 92. Minority women often lack health care and medical treatment owing to economic, social, political and geographical barriers. Minority women may be denied proper health or medical services, fear the consequences of asking for medical assistance, receive improper or low-quality care or live in places where no health services are available. Governments should ensure that health services are suitable as far as possible and accessible to mobile households and to the reality of the different minority groups present in their territory. Practices such as employing female minority health mediators to work closely with minority communities and to help build bridges between minority women and health and social services providers should be considered. 93. The activities of health-care providers, including hospitals, should prevent discriminatory practices against minority women such as the refusal of treatment, isolation in separate wards or conducting medical interventions without their consent. 94. Governments, in collaboration with national human rights institutions and minority and women’s rights organizations, should seek to ensure fully the cultural rights of minority women, including through the promotion of intercultural and interreligious dialogue and cooperation at all levels, especially at the local and grass-roots levels. 2. National human rights institutions 95. National human rights institutions should study impediments and recommend legislative and policy reforms and assist in developing programmes to guarantee the implementation of non-discrimination legislation with regard to such areas as minority women’s access to education and training, employment, labour rights, social security, financial services and land and property rights. 3. Civil society 96. Civil society actors should consider dedicated initiatives that focus on issues such as promoting minority women’s access to training and skills, employment, financial services, social security and land tenure and property rights. 16