E/CN.4/1994/66 page 10 A conference for the purpose of consolidation during the third year of his mandate. These scientific encounters will be organized in close collaboration with the specialized agencies concerned with human rights, the NGOs and experts working in the field. 51. The Special Rapporteur is convinced of the importance of education and its far-reaching consequences and suggests that measures should be studied to prevent actions and behaviour giving rise to discrimination - prevention being better than cure - and that a system of human rights teaching should be established in all States in close cooperation with specialized agencies such as UNESCO and with Governments. There would be a study of how to make this system mandatory and effective. Could cultural and social racism not be gradually checked by theoretical teaching as well as practical methods (plays and cultural events) which would enable a country’s different ethnic or cultural groups to get to know, learn, understand and appreciate each other’s culture, and thus facilitate cultural intermingling? Today, in the "finite world" or the "planetary village" we inhabit, ethnic, religious and cultural minorities could, thanks to the large scale impact of the media, achieve a better mutual understanding in cultural terms and accept each other to a greater extent. Greater tolerance would thus grow progressively between peoples, migrants, immigrant workers and their families and aboriginal or indigenous peoples. In short, the Special Rapporteur attaches great importance to the prevention of manifestations of racism in any form whatsoever by governmental, legislative, administrative, economic and social and above all educational measures. 52. Lastly, the Special Rapporteur would suggest that some thought might be given, at the conclusion of the Third Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination to erecting a memorial in honour of the victims of racial discrimination. It could be set up on the Place des Nations within the grounds of the United Nations at Geneva to promote an awareness of the evils of racial discrimination and to draw attention to the continuing and sustained activities of the United Nations against all forms of racism and on behalf of human rights. If this idea were to find favour, the activity would be financed by voluntary contributions. Our world does not lack men of goodwill, humanists or benefactors.

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