A/RES/53/153 Page 5 12. Encourages the human rights treaty bodies, when examining reports of States parties, to place emphasis on obligations of the States parties in the area of human rights education and information and to reflect this emphasis in their concluding observations; 13. Calls upon international, regional and national non-governmental organizations and intergovernmental organizations, in particular those concerned with women, labour, development, food, housing, education, health care and the environment, as well as all other social justice groups, human rights advocates, educators, religious organizations and the media, to undertake specific activities of formal, nonformal and informal education, including cultural events, alone and in cooperation with the Office of the High Commissioner, in implementing the Plan of Action; 14. Urges Governments and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to continue beyond 10 December 1998 the human rights education and public information work undertaken in the context of the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, such as the development of materials, the elaboration of programmes and the establishment of networks, as called for by the Commission on Human Rights in paragraph 11 of its resolution 1998/45 of 17 April 1998;13 15. Encourages the Commission on Human Rights to consider jointly, for the duration of the Decade, the question of the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education, 1995–2004, and public information activities in the field of human rights, including the World Public Information Campaign; 16. Encourages the Office of the High Commissioner to continue considering ways and means to support human rights education activities, including those undertaken by non-governmental organizations; 17. Requests the Secretary-General, through the High Commissioner for Human Rights, to bring the present resolution to the attention of all members of the international community and of intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations concerned with human rights education and public information, and to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session a comprehensive report on its implementation of the present resolution for consideration under the item entitled “Human rights questions”. 85th plenary meeting 9 December 1998 13 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1998, Supplement No. 3 (E/1998/23), chap. II, sect. A.