A/HRC/FMI/2011/1 addressing barriers such as language, security issues, absence of private bathrooms and decent sanitation facilities for girls, and internal factors, including local customs and cultural practices; the learning environment and school governance; and the content and delivery of curricula that may not reflect the community priorities and the specific situation of minority girls. 4. Minority women and effective political participation 8. Under this agenda item, discussion will include an overview of international and regional human rights frameworks and core principles on the right of minority women to effective political participation. The discussions will identify remaining obstacles and conditions required to guarantee the effective political participation of minority women. The agenda item will also look at concrete steps and existing measures aimed at increasing the political participation of minority women and at building their capacity to participate effectively and to reach meaningful and equal representation in decision-making. These would include special measures such as quotas, reserved seats or other such mechanisms to increase the participation of minority women in all forms and levels of governments, including in local authorities and minority traditional forms of governance, as well as in consultative bodies. 5. Minority women and effective participation in economic, social and cultural life 9. Under this agenda item, discussion will include an overview of the legal framework and core principles with regard to the right of minority women to effectively participate in economic, social and cultural life, as well as recent global initiatives. The discussion will identify existing challenges faced by minority women in the realization of their economic, social and cultural rights. Topics for discussion will include good practices to ensure the right of minority women to work, guarantee their access to labour markets, increased participation of minority women in sustainable livelihood activities generally undertaken by men, and the integration of minority women in economic development as well as in policymaking and decision-making processes. Participants will also discuss the access of minority women to social security, culturally and gender-sensitive health care and childcare facilities and issues relating to housing, land and property rights and inheritance by minority women. 6. National practices and experiences: positive measures/ affirmative action and role models 10. This agenda item will focus on national laws, policies and practices that have been developed to foster the rights of minority women and their impact on the full enjoyment of the rights of minority women and their empowerment. Governments will be invited to describe their political, economic, social and cultural policies designed to support and promote equal rights and opportunities for minority women. Equally, minority women will discuss the role that they can and should play in policymaking and decision-making in the public and private spheres and share their positive grass-roots experiences as individuals and members of minority women’s organizations. The discussion will also take into consideration measures to enhance the mainstreaming of women’s rights in minority groups’ discourses and how women’s organizations are integrating the rights of minorities in their overall work and activities. Positive measures as well as experiences from minority 3