Other relevant bodies in the United Nations system 63 PART TWO OTHER RELEVANT BODIES IN THE UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM In addition to OHCHR, virtually all other entities of the United Nations pursue activities that relate, directly or indirectly, to minority issues. The Department of Political Affairs, for example, touches upon minority issues as it provides support to electoral processes, pursues mediation and tackles power-sharing and other issues; the Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide has included minority rights as a key component of its framework of analysis; and UN-Women has addressed the intersection of gender inequality with discrimination based on descent, race or ethnicity. Minority issues are also regularly present in the work of the associated programmes, funds and agencies which form part of the United Nations system. Pursuant to article 9 of the Minorities Declaration, all specialized agencies and other organizations of the United Nations system are to contribute to the full realization of the rights and principles set forth in the Declaration, within their respective fields of competence. The Inter-Agency Group on Minorities met between 2004 and 2011 to cooperate and advance the implementation of this article. To further enhance the scope and depth of such work, the Secretary-General’s Policy Committee decided in March 2012 to establish a United Nations network on racial discrimination and protection of minorities, to be coordinated by OHCHR. Within the United Nations system, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the United Nations Children’s Fund are specifically concerned with the groups identified in their names, and many of those who fall within their mandates are also members of minorities. The United Nations Development Programme has one of the broadest mandates within the United Nations system and is present in over 160 countries. Dedicated to promoting human development, it undertakes various activities related to minorities and is therefore often of great importance to minorities, both directly and indirectly. Specialized agencies have their own constitutions and membership rules, and the relationship of each with the United Nations is set out in agreements between them. There are many such agencies, two of which are regularly concerned with minority issues – the International Labour Organization and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Both have formal procedures under which allegations of human rights violations can be submitted to them and both pay specific attention to minority issues in some aspects of their work.