A/49/677 English Page 29 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 the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), intergovernmental organizations such as the European Union, and Governments. Consideration will be given to how this system can be made compulsory and effective. In this way, cultural and social racism could be gradually checked through education. 143. A group of social scientists and especially experts in the field of education could be given the delicate but not impossible task of looking into ways of ridding school textbooks and history books of racial, ethnic or religious prejudice and stereotypes. Cultural events could also be held which would enable a country’s different ethnic or cultural groups to become acquainted with each other and learn about, understand and appreciate each other’s cultures. This would foster cultural intermingling and genuine cultural pluralism on the basis of personal experience. Today, in this "small world" or "global village" of ours, the powerful impact of the media would lead ethnic, religious and cultural communities to understand each other’s cultures better and accept each other to a greater extent. In this way, greater tolerance will gradually develop between ethnic groups, migrants, immigrant workers and their families and autochthonous or indigenous peoples. In short, the Special Rapporteur attaches great importance to the prevention of manifestations of racism in any form whatsoever, through governmental, legislative, administrative, economic and social and, above all, educational measures. 144. With regard to anti-Semitic propaganda, given the wide circulation of anti-Semitic publications and the danger they represent, the Special Rapporteur recommends that appropriate legislative and administrative measures should be taken by the States concerned and, where appropriate, at the international level to halt the dissemination of such publications, in particular the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion". 145. In view of the number of existing special procedures, such as those concerning forced or involuntary disappearances, torture, religious intolerance, etc., the Special Rapporteur, speaking from experience, is convinced of the need to introduce a mechanism for periodic consultation and coordination between special rapporteurs dealing with subjects of a similar nature. Special consideration should also be given to a mechanism conducive to active, efficient intersectoral cooperation between the various branches and sectors of the Centre for Human Rights. 146. Systematic cooperation, in the form of periodic consultations and joint activities, should likewise be established with the specialized agencies such as the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) (see the Convention on the Rights of the Child), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Labour Office, UNESCO and the Commission on Human Rights. 147. The Special Rapporteur would suggest again 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 racism and /...

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