A/HRC/RES/43/8 6. Urges States, while bearing in mind the theme of the twelfth session of the Forum on Minority Issues, and with a view to enhancing the implementation of the Declaration and to ensuring the realization of the rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, including minority youth, to take appropriate measures by, inter alia: (a) Taking legislative, policy or practical measures to ensure that persons belonging to minorities have equal access to education of equal quality, delivered in an inclusive environment that fosters greater achievement for all; (b) Considering ratifying and acceding and adhering to relevant international and regional human rights instruments that protect and promote the rights of persons belonging to linguistic minorities, including those pertaining to the right to education; (c) Providing, wherever possible, persons belonging to minorities with adequate opportunities to learn their own language or to have instruction in their own language, while ensuring that minorities also have access to instruction in official languages; (d) Considering minority language education in the implementation of Goal 4 of the Sustainable Development Goals, aimed at ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all; (e) Promoting educational environments that respect linguistic and cultural diversity and freedom from discrimination, stigmatization, hatred and hate speech towards persons belonging to minorities, including through public education and information campaigns and by providing training for educators; (f) Refraining from the forced assimilation of persons belonging to minorities through, inter alia, the prohibition of education in or the teaching of the mother tongue of minorities; (g) Creating a safe and enabling environment for civil society representatives working on the human rights of persons belonging to minorities in language matters and monitoring the implementation of States’ obligations towards ensuring access to, education in and the teaching of minority languages; (h) Promoting access of persons belonging to minorities to administrative, legal and health services by considering offering them also in minority languages; (i) Ensuring that education is provided in sign language for the deaf community where this is practicable; (j) Developing and financing programmes for the development and training of minority language teachers, and promoting such programmes among minority communities; (k) Allocating the resources necessary to promote access to education in and the teaching of minority languages; (l) Ensuring that educational curricula do not include materials that stereotype minorities, including women and girls belonging to minorities, on the basis of their ethnicity or their gender; (m) Taking all measures necessary to ensure access to minority language education and teaching for women and girls of minority communities, where applicable, considering the multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, marginalization and exclusion to which they are often subjected because of their gender and minority status; 7. Invites international and regional organizations to continue to pay attention to the situations and rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, and in this regard to take into consideration relevant recommendations of the Forum on Minority Issues; 8. Welcomes the fact that the twelfth Forum on Minority Issues was fully interpreted in sign language, and stresses the importance that discussions at the Forum remain fully accessible to persons with disabilities; 9. Invites the Office of the High Commissioner, United Nations entities and Member States to support and collaborate in the organization of regional forums on minority 3