A/HRC/20/26/Add.2 language, religion and system of traditions, customs and other artistic and cultural manifestations. 85. The Independent Expert encourages the Government of Morocco to approach cultural diversity as an invaluable resource for the inclusion of all, and to take measures to mainstream cultural diversity and the cultural heritage of the country’s diverse populations by, inter alia, promoting these cultures through education, the media and cultural activities, raising intercultural competencies of all official institutions and encouraging bilingual skills in civil servants. 86. In the Independent Expert’s view, a number of specific challenges need to be addressed. For this reason, she calls upon the Government: (a) To strengthen support for the promotion and preservation of Amazigh culture by: (i) Promptly promulgating laws implementing the constitutional provision granting an official status to the Amazigh language; (ii) Allocating subsidies to Amazigh artists, theatres and cultural associations, including Amazigh artists in teams that travel abroad representing the culture of Morocco; (iii) Reforming the education sector in order to ensure the use of the Amazigh language in all education spheres, and including Amazigh language textbooks in the official list of books prepared by the Ministry of Education to be distributed free of charge in all schools; (iv) Providing adequate funding and assistance in capacity-building measures to promote the use of Amazigh language in education and public life; in particular, further financial assistance should be extended to IRCAM to ensure that relevant books and publications are widely distributed in rural areas; (v) Ensuring that media channels broadcasting in Arabic language also broadcast at least 30 per cent of their programmes in the Amazigh language, as stipulated by law; further measures should also be taken to develop programmes at the national and regional levels to support efforts to promote the knowledge of cultural heritage and diversity in educational and youth programmes, and mobilizing the national media to advocate this approach; (vi) Promoting language skills in Government and administrative officials providing public services to Amazigh speakers, and in judges and lawyers, and ensuring the training and availability of Amazigh interpreters before courts; (b) To ensure that civil registrars adhere fully to the provisions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs circular of April 9 2010 on the choice of given names. The Government should provide access to timely and effective remedies to individuals whose children have been denied registration of names. In this case, civil status officers should provide written responses to applicants, in a timely manner, stipulating clearly their reasons for such refusals and the possibilities of appeal. The Government should also envisage adopting a new law recognizing the right of every person to choose freely the name of their children in their own language; (c) To repeal Ministry of Education circular No. 122 of 7 January 2002 stipulating that non-Arabic names of a number of schools should be replaced with Arabic names, and repeal any other similar legislation. Morocco should respect the right to have access to and enjoy the cultural heritage of one’s own community and 20