Beijing conferences where women from minorities were explicitly mentioned and their rights underlined. However, the task of ensuring that women from minorities are fully integrated, and that the multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination they experience are adequately and consistently considered by both Treaty Bodies and by the all instruments of the United Nations, I have to say, in my view, is work in progress. It would be easy for me as a member of the CERD to sit here and give you chapter and verse of what we have done, and indeed CERD in concluding observations, virtually always focuses on the need to realise rights of minority women, but I think it is important for all of us involved in these processes to recognise that much still needs to be done. You also need to use this Forum to call on us to continue to make progress. CERD Recommendation 25 on women recognises the need for disaggregated data, not just disaggregated data on the basis of minorities, but disaggregated data which also helps establish the position of minority women. This disaggregated data is essential. We cannot manage things, unless we know what we are talking about. It’s not about labelling, it’s about creating the conditions for addressing discrimination. I urge the Forum to call for this in your recommendations and also for full engagement of the new agency, UN Women with the realising of rights for women from minorities. Regional Instruments At regional level in Europe the various Conventions of the Council of Europe and the European