E/CN.4/2005/18/Add.5 page 13 discrimination in favour of indigenous and African-Honduran population groups, as the core element of the comprehensive programme of action against racism and racial discrimination; (g) The Government is invited to improve its working relationships and consultations with organizations representing communities that suffer from discrimination, such as ODECO, OFRANEH, the Federación de Tribus Xicaques de Yoro (FETRIXY), Mosquitia Pawisa Apiska (MOPAWI) (the Mosquito Coast development agency) and the Asociación Miskitos Hondureños de Buzos Lisiados (AMBLI) (association of handicapped diver-fishermen of the Mosquito Coast); (h) The Honduran Government should provide the population groups concerned with the necessary resources to enable them to take charge of the tourist activities in their regions, in order to improve their living conditions and to promote the authenticity and vitality of their heritage and cultural expressions, and thus avoid having their heritage and culture devalued and treated as folklore; (i) The Honduran Government should speed up the introduction of intercultural, multilingual education programmes for the indigenous and Garifuna population groups and for the Honduran population as a whole, since these communities live side by side but know little of each other’s history, value systems or spiritual and cultural traditions; (j) It is in this context that the role of the media and their impact on the formation of perceptions, images and thus prejudices should be examined. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the media should adopt a code of conduct and take steps to reflect the ethnic, cultural and spiritual diversity of Honduras in both their programmes and their organizational structure; the State and the media should do everything possible to encourage the establishment of local and community-based media. To this end, the Government should set up, in collaboration with the media and with due respect for freedom of information and expression, a multi-ethnic, democratically constituted commission to submit a joint programme to it. Recommendation at the regional level 33. (a) Efforts to combat racism and racial discrimination should take into account the regional dimension in Central America, where the societies share not only demographic, ethnic and cultural similarities, but above all a historical heritage of racism and discrimination, amplified by present-day political violence. The countries of this region are also characterized by movements of population groups which are victims of discriminatory practices to various degrees in the different countries. The Special Rapporteur consequently recommends that the Organization of American States (OAS), and in particular the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, should assign a central role in peacebuilding to the thoroughgoing eradication of racism and racial discrimination with a view to building democratic, egalitarian and interactive multiculturalism in the region. OAS should support the efforts of the Central American States by means of studies on the shaping of multi-ethnic identities and the manifestations