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(a)
Mainstream cultural
implementation of those rights;
rights
and
dedicate
more
resources
to
(b)
Develop more tools and publications to increase awareness of cultural
rights and educate human rights mechanisms, treaty bodies and United Nations
agencies about cultural rights, including the right to science;
(c)
Pursue further opportunities for cooperation between the mandate of the
Special Rapporteur and other relevant mechanisms;
(d)
Foster better thematic coordination between the mandate and the
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, for example by organizing
periodic meetings of the experts;
(e)
Ensure integration of the work of the mandate on cultural rights in
future revisions of the guidelines for reporting to all relevant treaty bodies, especially
under article 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights;
(f)
Consider how to increase the attention paid to cultural rights issues
when establishing the basis of the fourth cycle of the universal periodic review;
(g)
Increase the human and material resources and technical support
devoted to the mandate on cultural rights so as to increase the output of
communications, the development of follow-up and implementation mechanisms and
improvement in the communications capacity of the mandate;
(h)
Ensure transmission of the Special Rapporteur’s reports and
recommendations through all appropriate channels at the national and international
level, so as not to rely solely on posting on the website.
95.
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights should:
(a)
Dedicate more attention to article 15 of the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in its dialogue with States;
(b)
Consider addressing in greater detail the content and obligations
relating to article 15 (2), (3) and (4) through days of general discussion and general
comments;
(c)
Conduct outreach so as to encourage more civil society groups working
in the cultural rights area to engage with the Committee through the submission of
shadow reports to it, and submission of cases under the Optional Protocol.
96.
Other human rights treaty bodies should increase their work on relevant
aspects of cultural rights, including in dialogue with States and in concluding
observations, and should consider adopting general comments on the cultural rights
provisions of their respective treaties where they have not done so, such as in the case
of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
97.
Regional, national and international human rights mechanisms and civil society
organizations working on freedom of opinion and expression should systematically
integrate freedom of artistic expression into their work and accordingly refer to
article 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,
together with article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to
interpret this freedom.
98.
International courts and tribunals should hear more cases concerning
violations of cultural rights.
99.
The United Nations system should hold an international conference bringing
together those working against fundamentalism and extremism from a human rights
perspective, including relevant cultural rights defenders and women human rights
defenders.
100.
Civil society should:
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