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education developed by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights 12 within the framework of the Decade;
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.
Encourages Governments to consider, within the national plans of action
mentioned in paragraphs 3 and 4 above, the establishment of public access human
rights resource and training centres capable of engaging in research, the gendersensitive training of trainers, the preparation, collection, translation and
dissemination of human rights education and training materials, the organization of
courses, conferences, workshops and public information campaigns and assistance
in the implementation of internationally sponsored technical cooperation projects for
human rights education and public information;
6.
Encourages States, where such national public access human rights
resource and training centres exist, to strengthen their capacity to support human
rights education and public information programmes at the international, regional,
national and local levels;
7.
Calls upon Governments, in accordance with national conditions, to
accord priority to the dissemination, in the relevant national and local languages, of
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,1 the International Covenants on Human
Rights 2 and other human rights instruments, human rights materials and training
manuals, as well as reports of States parties submitted under international 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;
8.
Encourages Governments to support further, through voluntary
contributions, the education and public information efforts undertaken by the Office
of the High Commissioner within the framework of the Plan of Action;
9.
Requests the High Commissioner 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, in cooperation,
inter alia, with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization,
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;
10. Encourages Governments to contribute to the further development of the
web site of the Office of the High Commissioner, 10 in particular with respect to the
dissemination of human rights education materials and tools, and to continue and
expand the publications and external relations programmes of the Office;
11. Encourages the Office of the High Commissioner 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
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