A/HRC/18/43 (a) Encourages United Nations specialized agencies and organizations to provide both financial and technical support for indigenous peoples in their effort to establish their own education institutions in accordance with article 14 of the Declaration; (b) Proposes that the Human Rights Council encourage States to put in place legislative and policy measures that would enable the development and implementation of traditional education systems to strengthen indigenous language and culture in promoting and protecting the well-being and identity of indigenous peoples, and to ensure that quality education becomes a national priority within States. Proposal 7: International expert seminar on truth and reconciliation processes The Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: (a) Noting that there is global recognition of the need to resolve the legacy of residential, day and boarding school systems and orphanages established globally to realize fully the human rights of multiple generations of indigenous peoples; (b) Noting also that an international expert seminar on truth and reconciliation processes will promote reconciliation among indigenous peoples, States, churches and other citizens; (c) Refers to proposal 8 from its third session,5 in which it recognized the significance of national truth and reconciliation processes in providing an important model and mechanism for improved relations between States and indigenous peoples, and encouraging the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to consider the possibility of preparing an international expert seminar on truth and reconciliation processes; (d) Refers to the report of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on its tenth session,6 in which the Forum supported an international expert seminar on truth and reconciliation processes; (e) Proposes that an international expert seminar on truth and reconciliation processes be held in 2013. Proposal 8: National human rights institutions The Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: (a) Refers to proposal 2 from its second session7 and proposal 1 from its third session,8 in which it reiterated its request to national human rights institutions to effectively promote and protect the rights of indigenous peoples; (b) Welcomes the initiative by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and national human rights institutions to develop an operational guide for national human rights institutions with the objective of achieving the implementation of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and encourages the participation of all parties, including indigenous peoples, in the preparation of the operational guide, and the broad dissemination of the guide upon its completion, in particular to all national human rights institutions, to be taken as practical guidance in its work with indigenous peoples; (c) Also welcomes the decision of the International Coordinating Committee of National Human Rights Institutions to hold a panel discussion on indigenous peoples at its next session, in March 2012, and encourages the participation of the Expert Mechanism. 5 A/HRC/15/36. Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2006, Supplement No. 23 (E/2011/43-E/C.19/2011/14), para. 95. 7 A/HRC/12/32. 8 A/HRC/15/36. 6 6