A/HRC/39/68 • Meetings, seminars, conferences and trainings on the work of the Expert Mechanism, including the implementation of the Declaration • Specific training and promotional activities with national human rights institutions at the national, regional or international level • Establishing an Expert Mechanism-Global Alliance network of national human rights institutions working on indigenous peoples’ rights • Undertaking joint fundraising activities for capacity-building Country-based activities of national human rights institutions 15. The Expert Mechanism encourages national human rights institutions to: • Promote, create awareness and build capacity on the work, reports and studies of the Expert Mechanism and the Declaration, including by advising indigenous peoples and States on the Expert Mechanism’s working methods and modalities of country engagement • Provide advice, support and encouragement to States in achieving the ends of the Declaration • Promote the translation of the Mechanism’s documents into local languages • Support States and remind them of their commitments undertaken in the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples (resolution 69/2), in particular the commitment to develop and implement national action plans to achieve the ends of the Declaration. Intimidation and reprisals 16. In the light of General Assembly resolutions 68/171, 70/163 and 72/181, the Expert Mechanism encourages national human rights institutions to inform it of situations where national human rights institutions, their members or staff, indigenous peoples or civil society who have sought to engage and/or cooperate with the Expert Mechanism, or who have engaged and/or cooperated with the Expert Mechanism, led to cases of intimidation, persecution or reprisal, including political pressure, physical intimidation, harassment or unjustifiable budgetary limitations of the institutions. 17. Information on how to share information about cases of intimidation and reprisals can be found on the web page of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.3 General information 18. The modalities for taking part in all Expert Mechanism sessions and other activities can be found on the Expert Mechanism’s webpage.4 3 4 18 See www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Reprisals/Pages/HowToShareInformationAboutCases.aspx. See http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IPeoples/EMRIP/Pages/EMRIPIndex.aspx.