A/HRC/28/77 promote understanding, tolerance and mutual respect across communities as well as to eliminate the possible recruitment or exploitation of young people by groups that promote or incite violence. 36. National human rights institutions should consider establishing special units, sections or expertise on minority issues within their structures to ensure engagement with minority communities and monitoring of situations of potential threats and to support the implementation of human rights programmes in close contact and consultation with minority communities. National human rights institutions should be empowered to establish complaints mechanisms, accessible to persons or groups belonging to minorities, under which violence or the threat of violence may be addressed. 37. Public and private media bodies and sources should ensure minority representation and be accessible in different minority languages. Media bodies and sources must guarantee that they do not contribute to or allow hate speech and incitement to hatred or crimes of violence. Independent media monitoring bodies, including representatives of minorities, should be established to monitor media, social media and online output and, where necessary, raise concerns relating to incitement to violence with appropriate national authorities. 38. Minority groups and national non-governmental organizations should be aware of existing regional and international mechanisms in place and their potential role in preventing violence against minorities. Civil society should bring issues of emerging national concern to the attention of regional bodies and the international community. 3. Recommendations to regional and international actors 39. Regional human rights bodies should systematically pay attention to minority issues and potential threats to specific minorities within their work, including in the context of their monitoring of the implementation by States of regional and international standards. They should address specific questions to States on the situation of minorities and engage States on the nature of alleged threats or violence against minorities and on constructive ways of managing diversity as a preventive strategy. 40. Regional bodies should consider establishing specific regional mechanisms for the consideration of minority issues, including working groups, rapporteurs or other appropriate mechanisms that have the authority, inter alia, to undertake country visits and analyse situations where minority rights concerns exist. Coordinated regional early warning and urgent action mechanisms should be established and provided with adequate financial resources in order to respond quickly and appropriately to emerging situations of tension and prevent or limit their escalation into violence, serious human rights violations, or conflict. 41. International and regional organizations should increase their capacity to provide technical assistance to States, including in the fields of minority issues, non-discrimination, prevention of conflict and violence, and training of officials and law enforcement bodies. They should assist national authorities to disseminate and monitor implementation of regional and international norms and standards relevant to the protection of minorities from atrocity crimes, to deepen knowledge of the specific nature of atrocity crimes and to set up rules for mapping and assessing national capabilities in the institutional and judicial system. International and regional organizations should foster trust in the process of providing technical assistance and in the actors taking part in it and encourage close diplomatic relations with States in order to promote the delivery and implementation of such technical assistance. 42. The United Nations and its regional and subregional partners should improve their collective ability to prevent effectively and respond to future risks of serious violations of 8

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