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4. Urges Governments to encourage, support and involve national and local non-governmental and
community-based organizations in the implementation of their national plans of action;
5. Calls upon Governments, in accordance with their national conditions, to accord priority to the
dissemination in their relevant national and local languages of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,1
the International Covenants on Human Rights2 and other human rights instruments, human rights materials
and training manuals, as well as reports of States parties under the human rights treaties, and to provide
information and education in those languages on the practical ways in which national and international
institutions and procedures may be utilized to ensure the effective implementation of those instruments;
6. Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to continue to coordinate
and harmonize human rights education and information strategies within the United Nations system,
including the implementation of the Plan of Action, and to ensure maximum effectiveness and efficiency
in the use, processing, management and distribution of human rights information and educational materials,
including through electronic means;
7. Encourages the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to continue
to support national capacities for human rights education and information through its technical cooperation
programme in the field of human rights, including the organization of training courses and the
development of targeted training materials for professional audiences, as well as the dissemination of
human rights information materials as a component of technical cooperation projects;
8. Urges the Office of Communications and Public Information of the Secretariat to continue to
utilize United Nations information centres for the timely dissemination, within their designated areas of
activity, of basic information, reference and audio-visual materials on human rights and fundamental
freedoms, including the reports of States parties under human rights instruments, and, to this end, to ensure
that the information centres are supplied with adequate quantities of those materials;
9. Stresses the need for close collaboration between the Office of the High Commissioner and the
Office of Communications and Public Information in the implementation of the Plan of Action and the
World Public Information Campaign on Human Rights and the need to harmonize their activities with
those of other international organizations such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization with regard to its project entitled "Towards a culture of peace" and the International
Committee of the Red Cross and relevant non-governmental organizations with regard to the dissemination
of information on international humanitarian law;
10. Invites the specialized agencies and relevant United Nations programmes and funds to contribute,
within their respective spheres of competence, to the implementation of the Plan of Action and the World
Public Information Campaign on Human Rights and to cooperate closely with the Office of the High
Commissioner in that regard;
11. Encourages the human rights treaty bodies, when examining reports of States parties, to place
emphasis on obligations of States parties in the area of human rights education and information and to
reflect this emphasis in their concluding observations;
12. Calls upon international, regional and national non-governmental organizations and
intergovernmental organizations, in particular those concerned with women, labour, development, food,
housing, education, health care and the environment, as well as all other social justice groups, human
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