A/HRC/34/56 (m) Take all necessary measures to respect and ensure the human rights of human rights defenders, including cultural rights defenders and women human rights defenders, challenging fundamentalism and extremism, including by investigating all threats and attacks against them, bringing perpetrators to justice and providing protection where necessary and in agreement with those affected; (n) Remove obstacles for the functioning of an independent civil society that promotes human rights in accordance with international norms; (o) Involve human rights defenders, including women human rights defenders, with relevant expertise, in all programmes and policy discussions regarding combating fundamentalism and extremism, including at international conferences and negotiations; ensure that the impact on human rights, including cultural rights, is always a core agenda item in such forums; (p) Provide for and protect the separation of religion and State and guarantee religious freedom, including the right to believe, not to believe and to change one’s belief, in accordance with international law; (q) Respect and ensure the right to education for all without discrimination, in accordance with international standards; take urgent steps to protect schools, including girls’ schools, students and educators where they are at risk; (r) Ensure that schools, curricula and textbooks are not promoting fundamentalist or extremist ideology or discrimination; (s) Ensure that the impact of fundamentalist and extremist ideology and violence is taught appropriately in schools and through campaigns of public awareness, including in the media; (t) Promote documentation and analysis of fundamentalism and extremism inter alia through research centres, libraries and museums; (u) Act effectively to combat fundamentalism and extremism but refrain from violating human rights or international law in so doing; not use the legitimate struggle against fundamentalism and extremism as an excuse for violations of human rights. 98. Non-governmental organizations, civil society and experts should: (a) Document the role of fundamentalist and extremist ideology in human rights abuses by State and non-State actors and campaign against both the abuses and the ideologies that give rise to them; (b) Document the impact of State funding in the rise of extremism and fundamentalism and develop mechanisms for holding such States accountable; (c) Support human rights defenders who are combating fundamentalism and extremism and avoid undermining their work; (d) Decline to partner with or whitewash fundamentalists or extremists, even those who may have been victims of human rights violations and even while acting legitimately in defence of their human rights; (e) Submit cases concerning fundamentalist and/or extremist abuses to treaty bodies under relevant complaints procedures; (f) Work to sensitize the media to the importance of countering fundamentalism and extremism. 22