A/HRC/31/56/Add.1 in and access to existing initiatives, including but not limited to the areas of education, health care, employment and housing. 116. The Government is also urged to constructively engage with Roma communities in order to allow them to communicate their concerns, and ensure that solutions are developed and that any decisions affecting them are made on the basis of participation and dialogue. 6. Cross-cutting concerns 117. Brazil has a commendable practice of collecting socioeconomic data disaggregated by race. Data collection plays a vital role in revealing inequalities between groups in society and informs appropriate actions to address them. This practice should be continued. 118. Brazil should consider establishing an independent media observatory to counterbalance concerns about the lack of positive representations of minorities in the media. Such an observatory should monitor the presence of negative stereotypes, criminalization and hate speech, in relation to minorities in the media, and provide avenues for participation for minority journalists within mainstream media outlets. 119. Brazil should provide technical and financial support to minority-led organizations and civil society organizations that offer services and support to minorities. 120. Brazil should establish local independent complaint mechanisms that are linked to a national body. This would ensure that all human rights violations can be immediately reported to a trusted body, and data on complaints centrally collected. 121. Particular attention should also be paid to multiple forms of discrimination, including for minority women, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex individuals and communities and youth. 7. To the United Nations country team 122. The United Nations country team should ensure that the specific needs of minorities are incorporated into its programming, including promoting concerted efforts for the implementation of the plan for the International Decade for People of African Descent by all United Nations agencies. In so doing, priority should be given to minority staff, including Afro-Brazilians, among others. 22