A/51/536 English Page 21 and support of strategies and mechanisms that encouraged open and inclusive dialogue among all interested parties, it was stressed that special attention needed to be paid to minorities. As for research on the extent to which population groups were exposed to environmental degradation and hazards, reference was made to particularly vulnerable groups such as minorities. It was mentioned that the Centre was also committed to protecting and maintaining the historic, cultural and natural heritage of indigenous and other people, and that Governments, as enabling partners, should create and strengthen effective partnerships with vulnerable and disadvantaged groups, indigenous people and communities. The Habitat Agenda placed a great deal of emphasis on the particular problems of minorities, although not always using that particular term. C. International Labour Organization 75. The Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities was relevant to the work that ILO carried out within its mandate, in particular its programmes linked to the promotion of ILO Convention No. 111 of 1958, the Convention concerning Discrimination in respect of Employment and Occupation, and certain other international labour standards. In that respect, the Special Survey on Convention No. 111 had recently been examined by the Conference Committee on the Application of Standards. ILO had also made significant contributions on the subject of minority protection on the occasion of the Working Group on Minorities, the Working Group on the Right to Development and the Subcommission at its forty-eighth session. Further details about those activities would be provided in the report to the Commission on Human Rights at its fifty-third session. D. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 76. One of the mandates of UNESCO was to contribute to the struggle against discrimination in all its fields of competence, including discrimination against persons belonging to minorities. 77. UNESCO was preparing a book on all forms of discrimination which was addressed to a very large audience and could be used as a teaching aid for education at various levels. Another UNESCO publication, entitled Access to Human Rights Documentation contained reference to documentation, bibliographies and databases on human rights and had a special chapter devoted to minorities and indigenous peoples; the 1996 updated version of the publication also referred to the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities. In cooperation with the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, UNESCO was preparing a fact book on "Peace, Security and Conflict Prevention" which would include an analysis of different forms of discrimination which led to conflicts. 78. UNESCO Chairs on Human Rights Democracy and Peace now existed in 18 countries and included courses on discrimination and its different forms. Furthermore, the issue of discrimination was discussed regularly at UNESCO /...