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(a)
Ensure that all human rights bodies and mechanisms, including those
addressing protection of culture, cultural rights and human rights defenders, fully
address and mainstream relevant concerns related to the situation of cultural rights
defenders, recognizing the cultural rights dimension of their work;(b)
Regularly
invite cultural rights defenders, and especially those who are at risk, to speak, exhibit
and perform on United Nations premises, and showcase their work and cases on the
Internet and in media outlets.
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UNESCO should consider:
(a)
Developing a specific body of work on the protection and support of
cultural rights defenders, including by publicizing their work;
(b)
Engaging in increased global monitoring of attacks against artists,
cultural practitioners, cultural heritage defenders and all cultural rights defenders,
analogous to its monitoring of attacks against journalists and action for their safety;
(c)
Adopting a decision on the safety and support of cultural rights
defenders through the UNESCO Executive Board;
(d)
Allocating the necessary resources for the implementation of these
recommendations.
81.
National human rights institutions should:
(a)
Develop capacity to address violations of cultural rights and of the rights
of cultural rights defenders, in accordance with Committee on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights general comment No. 10 (1998) on the role of national human rights
institutions in the protection of economic, social and cultural rights;
(b)
Popularize the importance of cultural rights and the work of cultural
rights defenders;
(c)
Create hotlines or other independent warning systems for at-risk
cultural rights defenders.
82.
Civil society should:
(a)
Submit more shadow reports related to the implementation of cultural
rights and cases concerning cultural rights defenders to the Committee on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights, and to other relevant United Nations and regional bodies,
and to special procedures mandate holders and treaty bodies, including the Special
Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights;
(b)
Prepare educational materials and events for the culture sectors
regarding the protections for cultural rights defenders, and raise awareness of
cultural rights and cultural rights defenders among other human rights defenders;
(c)
Work to ensure the provision of free legal assistance to cultural rights
defenders facing legal proceedings for their work;
(d)
Work to increase and support networks between cultural practitioners,
including artists, and human rights defenders, and between cultural rights defenders
and other human rights defenders.
83.
Cultural institutions should:
(a)
Engage in capacity-building about cultural rights and about the concept
of and protections for cultural rights defenders and the culture sector;
(b)
Ensure that they adopt cultural rights-based approaches to their subject
matter, including the principles of non-discrimination, accessibility, consultation and
participation;
(c)
Respect the rights of members of their staffs who defend cultural rights
within the institution;
(d)
Cooperate locally, regionally and internationally to support cultural
institutions and cultural rights defenders at risk;
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