A/RES/53/153 Page 4 for national plans of action for human rights education developed by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights12 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. 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 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; 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 Governments to contribute to the further development of the website of the Office of the High Commissioner,9 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; 8. 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 components of technical cooperation projects; 9. Urges the Department of 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 international human rights instruments, and, to this end, to ensure that the information centres are supplied with adequate quantities of those materials; 10. Stresses the need for close collaboration between the Office of the High Commissioner and the Department of Public Information in the implementation of the Plan of Action and the World Public Information Campaign, 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; 11. 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 and to cooperate closely with the Office of the High Commissioner in that regard; 12 A/52/469/Add.1 and Add.1/Corr.1.