E/CN.4/1999/58 page 30 against women and including the desecration of religious sites, recognizing that every individual has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, expression and religion. It also invited all States to put into practice the provisions of the 1981 Declaration. 117. The Special Rapporteur has identified a number of factors that are of importance in combating and preventing intolerance and discrimination based on religion or belief. Those factors are both inherent in his mandate as well as external. A. Internal factors 118. Efforts must be made to increase the financial, human and technical resources allocated to the mandate, gradually to adopt a new methodology of work, and to ensure consistency between the title of Special Rapporteur, his mandate and its implementation. 1. Resources 119. The Special Rapporteur is convinced of the need to boost his mandate, but has come up against a virtually insurmountable barrier, namely, the paucity of resources allocated to his activities, his initiatives and his recommendations as a whole. Being aware of the financial crisis faced by the United Nations and the insignificant share of the regular budget allocated to the Office of the High Commissioner, he has sought voluntary contributions for his activities. In this connection, he wishes to thank the Norwegian Government for its exemplary action in this field which has taken the form not only of financial and political support for the Oslo Conference on Freedom of Religion or Belief, but also of a financial contribution earmarked, as a matter of priority, for activities relating to freedom of religion and belief. Increased funds should provide the Special Rapporteur with the minimum human resources necessary for the effective performance of the normal activities connected with his mandate (communications and in situ visits) and the implementation of his recommendations on studies and education (see paras. 6 to 13 above). 120. By and large, it would be desirable for these financial contributions to be used for the development of other informational resources and methodologies for inter alia collecting information, monitoring compliance, making available in simplified form for analysis all religious, philosophical and scientific research on freedom of religion or belief. To that end, the creation of an Internet site on the 1981 Declaration would be an extremely promising project meeting all the requirements implicit in the mandate (communications, in situ visits, studies and an international compendium of enactments; see paras. 2 to 5 above). As regards sources of information, the Special Rapporteur, while constantly mindful of his sources' authenticity and reliability, is of the view that those in the developing countries should be strengthened in order to assure human rights victims and advocates access to the special procedures; they must not be left behind in matters of accessing information, particularly in the context of modern communication technologies (fax, Internet, etc.).