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Organization, and to ensure maximum effectiveness and efficiency in the collection,
use, processing, management and distribution of human rights information and
educational materials, including through electronic means;
10. Encourages Governments to contribute to the further development of the
web site of the Office of the High Commissioner, 3 in particular with respect to the
dissemination of human rights education materials and tools, and to continue and
expand the publications and external relations programmes of the Office;
11. Encourages the Office of the High Commissioner to continue to support
national capacities for human rights education and information through its technical
cooperation programme in the field of human rights, including the organization of
training courses and peer education initiatives and the development of targeted
training materials for professional audiences, as well as the dissemination of human
rights information materials as a component of technical cooperation projects, to
develop further its databases and resource collection on human rights education and
to continue to monitor developments in human rights education;
12. Urges the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat to
continue to utilize United Nations information centres for the timely dissemination,
within their designated areas of activity, of basic information, reference and audiovisual materials on human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the reports of
States parties submitted under international human rights instruments, and, to that
end, to ensure that the information centres are supplied with adequate quantities of
those materials;
13. Stresses the need for close collaboration between the Office of the High
Commissioner and the Department of Public Information in the implementation of
the Plan of Action and the World Public Information Campaign on Human Rights,
and the need to harmonize their activities with those of other international
organizations, such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization with regard to its project entitled “Towards a culture of peace” and the
International Committee of the Red Cross, and relevant non-governmental
organizations with regard to the dissemination of information on international
humanitarian law;
14. Invites the specialized agencies and relevant United Nations programmes
and funds to continue to contribute, within their respective spheres of competence,
to the implementation of the Plan of Action and the World Public Information
Campaign and to cooperate and coordinate with each other and with the Office of
the High Commissioner in that regard;
15. Encourages the relevant organs, bodies and agencies of the United
Nations system, all human rights bodies of the United Nations system, including the
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Office
of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, to provide training in
human rights for all United Nations personnel and officials;
16. Encourages the human rights treaty bodies, when examining reports of
States parties, to place emphasis on the obligations of States parties in the area of
human rights education and to reflect that emphasis in their concluding
observations;
17. Calls upon international, regional and national non-governmental
organizations and intergovernmental organizations, in particular those concerned
with children and youth, women, labour, development, food, housing, education,
health care and the environment, as well as all other social justice groups, human
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