A/HRC/19/71 organizations in the development of material to provide human rights education, including material focusing on minority rights. 60. Governments should make targeted efforts to increase the training and recruitment of women teachers and teaching assistants from minority groups. Training of teachers should include anti-discrimination, gender-sensitivity and intercultural training. 2. National human rights institutions 61. National human rights institutions should play a central role in ensuring the provision of human rights education for all majority and minority communities in accordance with the plan of action of the World Programme for Human Rights Education, which includes information relating to the rights of minority women and girls. 62. National human rights institutions should develop material on the importance of access to education for all, including women and girls, and make sure that such material is tailored to the situation of all minority groups present in their State and available in minority languages. 3. United Nations system and human rights mechanisms 63. United Nations entities should consider including minority rights in general and minority women's rights in particular in all their relevant human rights education programmes, including in human rights training material and other educational tools and resources produced by them. United Nations Children’s Fund in particular should ensure a full inclusion of minority girls in all their education programmes. B. Effective political participation 64. Minorities often lack adequate representation and participation in national and local bodies responsible for policy, including with regard to economic life, national development and budgeting, and this is particularly the case for minority women. Consequently, the issues and situations of minority women may be neglected or not given the priority that is required to achieve meaningful change. Minority women may face obstacles within their homes and communities that deny them a role in decision-making. In the larger society, they may in turn be denied a say in decisions of the national polity because they are subject to multiple forms of discrimination owing to their status as women, and as minorities. Ensuring effective political participation for minority women not only ensures their participation in decision-making on issues directly affecting them but also helps to ensure that society as a whole benefits from their contribution and truly reflects its diversity. 1. Governments and parliaments 65. Governments should adopt a policy statement that recognizes the diversity in their respective societies with regard to gender, race, ethnicity, religion and language. They should develop plans and programmes to ensure the effective political participation of all sectors of society. These plans should explicitly require measures to promote the participation of minority women, including the adoption of positive measures to increase their participation, the development of educational programmes and campaigns to promote minority women’s political participation, measures to ensure diversity and multiculturalism among public administration staff, and the allocation of sufficient resources to realize identified objectives. Minorities, including minority women, should be fully involved on an informed basis in debates on the design of plans and programmes. The establishment of a specific mechanism or institutional procedure to monitor progress achieved in increasing 12