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agencies and institutions involved in promoting indigenous education with sufficient
material, institutional and intellectual resources.
81. The Special Rapporteur invites Governments to prepare, in close collaboration
with indigenous communities, programmes for the training of an adequate number
of bilingual and intercultural education teachers during the Second International
Decade of the World’s Indigenous People.
82. The Special Rapporteur also recommends that universities and research centres
increase their involvement in the preparation of special multidisciplinary curricula
for indigenous education. He further recommends that indigenous universities be
expanded and strengthened.
83. The Special Rapporteur recommends that course content on indigenous
peoples (including their history, philosophy, culture, art and ways of life) be
broadened at all levels of national education and that it be presented from an antiracist, multicultural perspective that reflects respect for cultural and ethnic diversity
and, in particular, gender equality.
84. The mass media should regularly include content related to indigenous peoples
and cultures in their programming, in a context of respect for the principles of
tolerance, fairness and non-discrimination established in international human rights
instruments, and indigenous peoples and communities should be entitled to make
use of the mass media, including radio, television and the Internet, for their own
purposes.
85. Special measures should be taken to protect indigenous communities against
organized violence in the context of internal armed conflicts.
86. These proposals for protecting the human rights of indigenous peoples should
have a prominent place among the activities to be carried out in the Second
International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People.
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