A/HRC/30/53 29. The World Heritage Committee should adopt changes to the criteria and regulations for the assessment of “outstanding universal value” so as to ensure that the values assigned to World Heritage sites by indigenous peoples are fully and consistently recognized as part of their outstanding universal value. 30. UNESCO and the World Heritage Committee should dedicate resources to the development of mechanisms to ensure that indigenous peoples can effectively participate in all World Heritage Convention processes affecting them and that their rights, priorities, values and needs are duly recognized, considered and reflected. 31. UNESCO should strengthen its efforts to finalize its Policy on Indigenous Peoples, in cooperation with indigenous peoples and the three United Nations mechanisms with specific mandates regarding the rights of indigenous peoples. 32. UNESCO should consider developing a charter on sports and traditional games that protects the cultural heritage of indigenous peoples in the area of sports and traditional games. 33. United Nations institutions should continue to develop guidelines and other norms and practices aimed at the protection and inclusion of traditional cultural heritage, including the role of traditional knowledge, in enhancing community resilience and sustainable development. 34. WIPO and its Intergovernmental Committee should ensure that indigenous peoples fully participate in the current negotiations and that their free, prior and informed consent is sought and obtained before any new international instruments for the protection of traditional knowledge is adopted. The process in which laws governing the use of traditional knowledge, cultural expressions and genetic resources are developed needs to conform with the rights guaranteed under the Declaration, particularly article 31. 35. The Human Rights Council should consider calling for an immediate halt to any removal of ancestral remains and cultural items indigenous peoples for any reason, unless their free, prior and informed consent is obtained. D. Advice for indigenous peoples 36. Indigenous peoples are the primary keepers of their cultural heritage. As such they have an active role to play in its preservation, transmission and revitalization. 37. Indigenous peoples should ensure the equal participation of women in discussions and decisions on cultural heritage at the level of the community. 38. Indigenous peoples should engage and take an active part in international fora related to the protection of cultural heritage, notably under the aegis of WIPO and UNESCO. 39. Indigenous peoples should participate in the practical Workshops for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities on intellectual property, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions that are organized by WIPO, which impart knowledge of the main principles of the intellectual property system, and explain, among other things, the rationale, objectives and methodology of the negotiations that are currently being conducted by the Intergovernmental Committee. 40. Indigenous peoples should participate actively to educate the non-indigenous population about the importance of the collective protection of the heritage of indigenous peoples. 23