A/HRC/58/60/Add.1 B. Recommendations 98. To improve the legal protection of everyone’s cultural rights, the Government should: (a) Adopt a law protecting cultural rights, as they are currently broadly understood, for all, irrespective of their status or any other characteristic; (b) Provide systematic training across all of its bodies and institutions on cultural rights and on the standards of participation; (c) Establish a bottom-up and inclusive approach in the culture of civil service, where real dialogue takes place on ways forward with diverse individual and collective voices; (d) Institutionalize a channel for recommendations from human rights bodies to reach the parliament for legal consideration and implementation; (e) Ensure the justiciability of cultural rights before courts; (f) Ratify, as soon as possible, the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; (g) Make training on gender equality and non-discrimination based on origin, sexual orientation and gender identity and status compulsory for all civil servants including the judiciary; (h) Complete the recognition of all Indigenous Peoples and tribal communities and ensure their equal protection before the law as soon as possible; increase the resources allocated to the Subdirectorate for Indigenous Peoples so that it may include all of them in its consultative and participatory initiatives; (i) Implement free, prior and informed consent for Indigenous Peoples in all matters that affect their cultures and lands, as stipulated in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. 99. To improve understanding of the full scope of cultural rights, the Government should: (a) Strengthen the National Commission for UNESCO so that it has the capacity to fulfil its functions; (b) In the reform of the Law on Heritage, review the approach to heritage to foster a holistic view of it that incorporates tangible, living and natural heritage; (c) Reconsider the national heritage list with a view to making it more holistic, afford protection to all heritage sites and practices that have value and meaning for persons living in Chile, irrespective of their status, and ensure that heritage policies fully take on board the views and decisions of the persons and communities who are connected to the heritage resources; (d) Halt any projects and construction in cultural, religious and meaningful sites that have begun without the appropriate consultation and/or free, prior and informed consent of the persons whose heritage is at stake, with a view to addressing tensions and finding adequate solutions; (e) Increase the funding of the Unit on Culture, Memory and Human Rights so that it may fulfil its tasks of fostering interculturality and preserving historical memory; (f) Develop, together with all concerned stakeholders, a transversal and sustainable policy on memory, including through education, memorials and museums; (g) Encourage and support various forms of financial support for artistic and cultural work, to ensure increased accessibility and diversity in cultural programming; 18 GE.25-01340

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