Welcomes the steps taken by Governments and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to implement the Plan of Action for the UN Decade for Human Rights Education, 1995-2004; urges all Governments to contribute further to the implementation of the Plan of Action; encourages Governments to consider, within their national plans of action for human rights education: (a) the establishment of public access human rights resource and training centres to carry out research; (b) the preparation, collection, translation and dissemination of human rights education and training materials; (c) the organization of courses, conferences, workshops and public information campaigns and assistance; encourages Governments to contribute to the further development of the web site of the Office of the High Commissioner; encourages the Office of the High Commissioner to continue to support national capacities for human rights education and information through its technical cooperation programme in the field of human rights; stresses the need for close collaboration between the Office of the High Commissioner and the Department of Public Information; encourages all relevant mechanisms of the Commission on Human Rights to include systematically in their reports a specific section on human rights education; encourages regional organizations to develop strategies for the wider distribution of materials on human rights education through regional networks; requests the Office of the High Commissioner to continue the implementation of and to expand the project entitled "Assisting Communities Together".

Adopted without vote, 77th plenary meeting

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