A/HRC/22/60 39. Taking into account national circumstances, Governments should consider establishing, in consultation with minorities, specialized national institutions or agencies mandated to address minority issues, or dedicated departments, sections or focal points within existing institutions to promote the Declaration and national laws relevant to minorities. Such institutional attention should provide a focus for governmental activities and help in devising proactive policy and programme initiatives and targeted approaches to challenges involving minorities. 40. States should establish advisory or consultative bodies or mechanisms with the full participation of minorities in order to ensure that their issues and views are reflected in decision-making bodies. Such bodies, ideally at the national and regional or local levels, should be attributed appropriate powers and functions, political weight, and be adequately resourced and effectively consulted on issues affecting the minority population. 41. States should establish, or, where they are already in place, strengthen, independent national human rights institutions and ombudsman’s offices with mandates including attention to minority issues. Their mandates should include fostering intercultural and interfaith dialogue in addition to receiving complaints in relation to alleged violations of minority rights and anti-discrimination legislation. 42. Measures to improve the representation and participation of minorities in all fields of life, including targeted recruitment and training initiatives, should be taken and promoted in the public and private sectors. Minorities should be represented in oversight and regulatory bodies relating, for example, to law enforcement services. 43. Governments should develop and implement inclusive and targeted education policies that ensure access to high-quality education for all persons belonging to minorities, and the opportunity to learn and be taught in their language as required by the Declaration. Intercultural education approaches that are minority-sensitive should be adopted, with particular attention paid to reflecting the diversity within society and the contribution of minorities to society and to countering negative stereotypes and myths. 44. States should adopt constructive and proactive policies that are adequately funded to address persisting inhibiting factors such as enrolment, registration formalities and cost burdens, to facilitate the admission and retention of minority children in schools. Resources available should be sufficient to guarantee that the education of their children is a financially viable proposition for minority families. 45. Human rights education for all should be made an integral part of the national educational experience and integrate a minority rights component. Governments should collaborate with minority rights organizations in the development of materials relevant to minority rights and the minority communities living in the State, and ensure that minorities are fully reflected in and mainstreamed into school curricula. All teachers should receive anti-discrimination, gender-sensitive and intercultural training. 46. States should support and consider providing funding to minority organizations, which have a deep knowledge of the issues faced by minorities and are well placed to deal with the communities and provide specific services and information. Collaboration with such organizations should be sought in order to provide or strengthen the links among all relevant Government bodies and minorities and so that they may act as mediators or facilitators in consultations organized by the Government between minority groups and society at large. 47. States should promote equitable access for minorities to new information and communications technologies, including the Internet and online social media channels, as a vehicle for the dissemination of information and for encouraging the effective participation of minorities, including young people, in all spheres of life. Information relevant to 8