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Commission on Human Rights regarding possible activities to be included in
national strategies for human rights education;
5.
Encourages Governments to support further, through voluntary
contributions, the education and public information efforts undertaken by the Office
of the High Commissioner within the framework of the Plan of Action;
Encourages the Office of the High Commissioner to continue to support
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national capacities for human rights education and information through its technical
cooperation programme in the field of human rights;
Urges the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat to
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continue to utilize United Nations information centres for the timely dissemination
of basic information, reference and audio-visual materials on human rights and
fundamental freedoms;
Requests the High Commissioner to continue to coordinate and
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harmonize human rights education and information strategies and the
implementation of the Plan of Action and the World Public Information Campaign
on Human Rights within the United Nations system, in cooperation with, inter alia,
the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the
Department of Public Information, and to ensure maximum effectiveness and
efficiency in the collection, use, processing, management and distribution of human
rights information and educational materials, including through electronic means;
Encourages all relevant organs, bodies and agencies of the United
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Nations system to provide training in human rights for all United Nations personnel
and officials;
10. Encourages the human rights treaty bodies, within their mandates, when
examining reports of States parties, to consider the activities of States parties in the
area of human rights education;
11. Encourages all relevant mechanisms of the Commission on Human
Rights to include systematically in their reports a specific section on human rights
education, as relevant to their mandate, as well as to include human rights education
as an item on the agenda of their annual meetings, with a view to strengthening their
contribution to human rights education;
12. Calls upon international, regional and national non-governmental
organizations and intergovernmental organizations to develop human rights
education programmes in implementing the Plan of Action;
13. Welcomes initiatives to include civil society, non-governmental
organizations, children and youth in national delegations to United Nations meetings
as an important component of human rights education;
14. Encourages Governments, regional organizations and intergovernmental
and non-governmental organizations to seek the cooperation of the private sector,
development, trade and financial institutions and the media in developing human
rights education strategies;
15. Encourages regional organizations to develop strategies for the wider
distribution of materials on human rights education in all relevant languages and to
maximize the participation of national entities in regional programmes on human
rights education;
16. Requests the High Commissioner to bring the present resolution to the
attention of all members of the international community and of intergovernmental
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