A/HRC/37/73 53. The denial of citizenship disproportionately affects persons belonging to minorities and prevents them from participating in public life. Statelessness needs to be effectively addressed by States, including through ratification and implementation of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. 54. Minority youth should have access to employment in the public sector without discrimination based on language, religion or ethnicity. States should consider creating posts specifically for ethnic minority youth, including through the use of quotas. 55. Special measures should also be implemented to facilitate social entrepreneurship by young people from minority backgrounds, including through training and financial support to such initiatives. 56. States should develop training and professional orientation programmes to effectively address youth unemployment, and in particular unemployment among minority youth. Such programmes need also to be made available in minority languages. 57. Public institutions should explore innovative ways to reach out to younger audiences and convey messages about the importance of political participation and advocacy. Examples of such initiatives include online platforms to collect opinions or petitions for young people to feed into central Government and municipal policies; youth parliaments that consider ethnic, linguistic and religious diversity; and training programmes for minority youth that promote participation. 58. States should also support efforts to engage minority youth through sport and culture. Such activities can also help develop a spirit of community, both within the minority community and between the minority community and the broader society. 59. States should ensure that minority youth are able to participate and organize public cultural events without the need for prior permission or, in limited circumstances where prior permission may be justified, without being arbitrarily denied permission, and should support other cultural events that may contribute to giving positive visibility to minority youth in society. They should make financial and other resources available to minority youth for the purpose of enabling cultural expression through public events as a means to promote diversity in society. It is crucial to consider creating programmes, or allocating resources for programmes, to provide training for youth to participate in cultural industries, for instance, training on music recording and production, video production and managing business aspects of cultural programming, including in their own languages. 60. Ministries of culture should include in their budget adequate funding for minority youth cultural groups, with particular attention to minority women. 61. States should provide financial support to privately delivered programmes, through which youth from national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minority groups can gain relevant substantive knowledge in an area where their interest, experience and leadership skills lie. 62. States should create an enabling environment for the establishment and functioning of organizations representative of minority groups. 63. States should value and promote multiculturalism and respect for diversity, and through this prism develop and implement concrete actions to combat and curb hate speech, radicalization of any type, intolerance, discrimination and violence. 10