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for survivors of sexual violence. In delivery of assistance, humanitarian actors should ensure
that their operations do not expose any recipient to potential further violence.
82.
All actors conducting needs assessments on post-conflict or post-violence should be
aware of political and security dimensions affecting minorities and should enable effective
minority engagement with political and security actors present on the ground. Needs
assessments should be undertaken by teams equipped with appropriate expertise in minority
rights, using assessment tools designed in consultation with minorities.
83.
Minority communities should build or renew communication inside the communities
of victims, and where possible with other communities, including those that may have been
perpetrators of violence. To that end, community leaders may consider engaging in
programmes aimed at fostering dialogue and mutual trust, including memorialization at the
individual, community and collective levels.
84.
The media can play a significant role in promoting interfaith and intercultural
dialogue among communities and in enhancing the development of a culture of peace and
dialogue, including through independent and impartial coverage of events and post-violence
or post-conflict peace processes.
85.
Young people belonging to minority and majority groups affected by violence or
conflict, either as victims, perpetrators or having played no role in the violence, should be
encouraged to engage in face-to-face dialogue, identifying shared values, exploring cultural
differences and discussing the issues of peace.
86.
National human rights institutions should participate fully in the restoration of a
strong human rights culture, including by focusing on training, education and public
awareness programmes aimed at ensuring that minority rights are both understood and
respected. They should monitor, inform and advise State authorities on specific postviolence issues affecting minorities and follow up on the integration of the rights and
perspectives of minorities in any of the post-violence and reconstruction agendas.
3.
Recommendations to regional and international actors
87.
Regional organizations should maintain close and ongoing communication with
national governments where violence has taken place and where necessary to support
mediation, security, human rights and humanitarian responses.
88.
As appropriate and in conformity with existing procedures and mechanisms, the
United Nations should consider establishing commissions of inquiry comprising
international experts to independently examine incidents of violence and accountability for
atrocity crimes, and make recommendations based upon their assessments. States under
investigation should cooperate fully with such inquiries and should provide full and
unfettered access to commission members.
89.
The United Nations should strive to ensure that transitional justice processes and
mechanisms take account of the root causes of conflict, and address violations of all rights,
including economic, social and cultural rights.
90.
Relevant field-based United Nations bodies, mechanisms and specialized agencies
should ensure that they have sufficient dedicated expertise on minority rights to promote
and coordinate peacebuilding capacity development efforts in countries where
intercommunal violence has been experienced.
91.
As appropriate and in conformity with international law, the international
community may consider supporting recourse to the International Criminal Court when
States are unwilling or unable to prosecute the perpetrators of atrocity crimes against
minorities.
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