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(i)
Build partnerships and promote collaboration between educational
institutions, cultural organizations and socially engaged artists;
(j)
Take effective steps, in accordance with international standards, to
combat discrimination, including against women, and promote diversity in the
cultural and artistic fields, including by urgently tackling sexual harassment in these
fields;
(k)
Increase their budgets for culture as much as possible, and at a
minimum comply with the UNESCO recommendation that Governments use 1 per
cent of total expenditures for culture.
87.
Transitional justice mechanisms and legal processes that develop reparation
schemes for victims of gross human rights violations should:
(a)
Coordinate efforts with artistic and cultural organizations with longstanding grass-roots commitments while respecting the integrity and independence of
these organizations;
(b)
Enlist the talents and perspectives of the artistic and cultural fields,
particularly in relation to processes of remembering and memorialization, to
strengthen the reflective and communicative capacities necessary to foster peace and
build trust.
88.
Cultural institutions should:
(a)
Adopt a cultural rights-based approach;
(b)
Commit to featuring a variety of socially engaged perspectives, including
the works of artists and marginalized voices, in their exhibitions, performances and
public programmes to facilitate interactions among people holding different views, in
accordance with international standards;
(c)
Invite creative collaborations featuring artists and cultural productions
from different sides of any social and political divides and representing multiple world
views, including non-religious and religious, as well as different interpretations of
religions;
(d)
Facilitate convenings of stakeholders involved in the field of culture
where they can safely reflect on the ethical dimensions of their practice and establish
networks;
(e)
Organize activities and take steps to increase public access to cultural
institutions, and bring arts and culture beyond institutions and into the public space
when conditions and security allow;
(f)
Promote the establishment of cultural institutions in disenfranchised
regions and neighbourhoods.
89.
Educational institutions should:
(a)
Ensure the exposure of students in the arts, social work, legal studies,
conflict transformation and all other relevant disciplines to cultural rights norms and
standards, as well as to examples of socially engaged cultural and artistic initiatives
that contribute to making societies more respectful of human rights;
(b)
Invite artists, cultural workers and related organizations engaged in
reconciliation processes for residencies that allow them to contribute to the education
and training of the next generation of practitioners and that afford them space and
support to document and reflect on their practice, to collaborate with scholars in the
creation of new work and to consider the adoption of cultural rights approaches;
(c)
Host symposiums, festivals and conferences that provide opportunities
for artists, scholars, transitional justice experts and others to reflect on their work and
methodology together and to establish networks. Consider the creation of centres of
innovation for this field;
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