E/CN.4/2002/73 page 43 (o) Recalling the Vienna Programme of Action, paragraph 38, and conscious of the need to consider the equality of gender in school education in relation with freedom of religion or belief, tolerance and non-discrimination, and also concerned about the continuing discrimination against women, while emphasizing the necessity to ensure women their human rights and fundamental freedoms and in particular their right to freedom of religion or belief, tolerance and non-discrimination; (p) Also concerned about the continuing discrimination against, inter alia, children, migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers while emphasizing the necessity to ensure their human rights and fundamental freedoms and in particular their right to freedom of religion or belief, tolerance and non-discrimination; (q) Convinced that education in relation with freedom of religion or belief can also contribute to the attainment of the goals of world peace, social justice, mutual respect and friendship among peoples and promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms; (r) Convinced also that the education in relation with freedom of religion or belief should contribute to the promotion of freedoms of conscience, opinion, expression, information and research as well as to the acceptance of diversity; (s) Recognizing that the media and new information technologies, including Internet, should contribute to education of the youth in the field of tolerance and freedom of religion or belief in a spirit of peace, justice, liberty, mutual respect and understanding in order to promote and protect all human rights, civil and political as well as economic, social and cultural; (t) Considering that efforts aiming at promoting, through education, tolerance and protection of freedom of religion or belief require cooperation among States, concerned organizations and institutions, and that parents, groups and communities based on religion or belief have an important role to play in this regard; (u) Recalling with appreciation the designation by the General Assembly of the year 1995 as the United Nations Year for Tolerance and the year 2001 as the United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations and the Global Agenda for Dialogue among Civilizations adopted by the General Assembly on 9 November 2001, and recalling the UNESCO Declaration on the Role of Religion in the Promotion of a Culture of Peace, of 18 December 1994 and the Declaration of Principles on Tolerance, adopted by UNESCO on 16 November 1995; (v) Noting the initiatives and actions undertaken in different international organs and organizations of the United Nations system, within which the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights which is implementing the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education (1995-2004), as well as many other human rights education programmes; UNESCO which has led programmes on human rights education and peace and has developed a policy of intercultural and inter-religious dialogue, as well as UNICEF which contributes to education and well-being of children in the various regions;