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rights advocates, educators, religious organizations, the private sector and the
media, to undertake specific activities of formal, non-formal and informal
education, including cultural events, alone and in cooperation with the Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in implementing the Plan of
Action;
18. Welcomes, in that context, initiatives to include civil society, nongovernmental organizations, children and youth in national delegations to world
conferences, summits and other meetings, as well as the work of non-governmental
organizations and intergovernmental agencies in organizing parallel nongovernmental organization and youth satellite meetings, as an important component
of human rights education;
19. Encourages Governments, regional organizations and intergovernmental
and non-governmental organizations to explore the potential support and
contribution to human rights education of all relevant partners, including the private
sector, development, trade and financial institutions and the media, and to seek their
cooperation in the development of human rights education strategies;
20. Encourages regional organizations to develop strategies for the wider
distribution of materials on human rights education through regional networks and
to develop region-specific programmes to maximize the participation of national
entities, whether governmental or non-governmental, in programmes on human
rights education;
21. Encourages intergovernmental organizations to assist, upon request,
collaboration between governmental institutions and non-governmental organizations
at the national level;
22. Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to continue the
implementation of and to expand the “Assisting Communities Together” project and
to consider other appropriate ways and means to support human rights education
activities, including those undertaken by non-governmental organizations;
23. Requests the High Commissioner to bring the present resolution to the
attention of all members of the international community and of intergovernmental
and non-governmental organizations concerned with human rights education and
public information, and to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-seventh session
on the progress made towards the achievement of the objectives of the Decade under
the item entitled “Human rights questions”.
88th plenary meeting
19 December 2001
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