E/CN.4/1996/72 page 4 7. The Commission has already established a programme of activities comprising various fields of action, the first of which consists of the study of the situation of each member country of the Council of Europe, the second of work on international legal instruments and the third of the international dimension in the fight against racism and intolerance. 8. During 1995, following consideration of the situation country by country, the Commission began to formulate recommendations involving both legal and non-legal measures intended for the countries concerned on the subject of international legal instruments. It concentrated particularly on the European Convention on Human Rights by carrying out work focusing on the feasibility of strengthening the non-discrimination clause in that Convention. 9. The Special Rapporteur, for his part, outlined the mandate entrusted to him by the Commission and expressed his wish to work in close cooperation with the European Commission, in particular through the regular exchange of information. He briefly referred to the tour he was making in Europe at that time (to Germany and France) and requested some additional items of information on the situation of certain member countries of the Council of Europe. 10. The Special Rapporteur and the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance mutually agreed to keep each other informed of any developments in Europe and within the United Nations in connection with combating racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance. C. Consultations with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 11. The Special Rapporteur went to the headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on 5 October 1995 in order to consider the scope for cooperation with the organization and to acquaint himself with its work to combat racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance. This brought home to him that UNESCO was attentively following the implementation of the Third Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination and had, in that connection, organized several seminars and conferences that had given rise to publications. The following may be mentioned by way of example: An international seminar of experts on the prevention of discrimination against migrants, refugees and minorities, held at Olympia, Greece, in May 1994; The Conference on Democracy and Tolerance, held at Seoul in September 1994. 12. The Special Rapporteur said that such work would be very useful to him and invited UNESCO to refer also to the various reports he had submitted to the Commission on Human Rights and to the General Assembly, and to consider practical measures to introduce the teaching of human rights as a subject in the curricula of preschool, school, non-formal and university education, with a view to progressively putting an end to racism and xenophobia.