A/HRC/40/30 racially motivated violence against that community, and in particular against women and children, its most vulnerable members. 14 28. In her annual report (A/HRC/38/52), the Special Rapporteur on racism highlighted that long-standing barriers in access to citizenship and naturalization in various countries had contributed to the deep-rooted forms of discrimination and exclusion faced by Sinti and Roma. Many members of the Roma and Sinti communities were stateless or faced the risk of statelessness due to their lack of access to civil registration and identity documents. Those barriers meant that statelessness was passed on from generation to generation, further perpetuating their exclusion, discrimination and marginalization. 29. The Human Rights Committee, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the Committee on the Rights of the Child made recommendations to several States in relation to Roma communities, particularly concerning intolerance and prejudice towards vulnerable and minority groups, including Roma, and the prevalence of hate speech and hate crimes against those groups, including on the Internet. The Committees also expressed concern over children in Roma communities. They recommended that States strengthen their efforts to combat intolerance, stereotypes and prejudice, and take measures to improve the reporting, investigation, prosecution and punishment of hate crimes and criminal hate speech. 15 The Committee on the Rights of the Child also recommended that States establish a system to track all cases involving child marriage in Roma communities.16 D. Minority youth 30. In June 2018, in his report on youth and human rights (A/HRC/39/33), the High Commissioner highlighted that existing participatory decision-making mechanisms should be improved and new ones explored in order to offer the possibility to think beyond traditional voting, and to make better use of information and communications technologies to ensure the equal participation of young people. Those mechanisms should take into account how intersecting forms of discrimination affected the ability of all young people to participate, in particular young people belonging to minority groups. 31. During the reporting period, some initiatives at the country level sought to promote the rights of minority youth. For example, in May 2018, a youth educational club called Synergy, from North Mitrovica, led a plenary activity as part of the project entitled “youth as advocates of human rights and gender equality”, supported by the Human Rights Unit of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). Over the course of six months, Synergy delivered 20 workshops for approximately 200 high school and university students from non-majority communities, aimed at raising their awareness of the root causes and ramifications of different forms of violence. 32. Also in May 2018, the second session of the Moldovan national youth forum on minorities, organized by the Moldovan youth platform for inter-ethnic solidarity, with the support of OHCHR, took place in Chisinau. It focused on the representation of minorities in the mass media. Around 100 participants gathered for the event, including minority young people from different regions of the country, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), journalists from minority and majority communities, members of the Government and Parliament and representatives of national human rights institutions. Participants made recommendations to the Government, which included support for minority-led media; the translation of websites of government institutions into minority languages; and the effective monitoring and sanctioning of discriminatory and hate speech towards minorities, both online and in the traditional mass media. 14 15 16 8 See www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=23385&LangID=E. See, for example, CCPR/C/LTU/CO/4, para. 8, CCPR/C/HUN/CO/6, para. 16 and CERD/C/SWE/CO/22-23, para. 25. See, for example, CRC/C/MNE/CO/2-3, para. 36.