Saudi media plays a negative role in promoting hatred and claims of apostasy for the Shia faith. We advise the Saudi government to: 1. Officially recognise the Shia faith in the academic curriculum. 2. Give Shias the right to draw up their academic religious curriculum and not compel them to study a curriculum which is religiously blasphemous to them. 3. Pass laws which criminalise those who promote discrimination and sectarianism and punish ministry educational officials who incite religious hatred of Shias and a lack of tolerance and brotherhood. 4. Adopt measures to guarantee the principle of equal opportunity for Shia women as for the rest of Saudi Arabian women in the educational sector. 5. Include the Shia areas in educational planning and build universities and institutes in Shia areas, which are deprived of them equivalent to those in other regions. 6. Allow the opening of local girls’ schools in Shia areas where it is currently forbidden to do so. Thank you for your attention.