E/CN.4/1996/95 page 16 75. The Special Rapporteur would also like to place special emphasis on the need - no matter what form the report on religious intolerance takes in the future - to ensure widespread dissemination of the information provided in the allegations transmitted to States and in the latters’ responses. Information can educate and, in the final analysis, education is one of the only things that can make a difference today. Right now the stakes are high and the resources few. However legitimate the desire to save money, we must not pass up the opportunity to educate. Savings made at the expense of human rights represent a loss for human rights which results in less freedom, less tolerance and less humanity. Notes 1/ If we add communications since the fifty-first session of the Commission on Human Rights, 319 communications have been sent to 88 States. 2/ Including the current period since the fifty-first session of the Commission on Human Rights. -----

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