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Human Rights emphasizes the importance of incorporating the subject of human rights education
programmes and calls upon States to do so. Education should promote understanding, tolerance,
peace and friendly relations between the nations and all racial or religious groups and encourage the
development of United Nations activities in pursuance of these objectives. Therefore, education on
human rights and the dissemination of proper information, both theoretical and practical, play an
important role in the promotion and respect of human rights with regard to all individuals without
distinction of any kind such as race, sex, language or religion, and this should be integrated in the
education policies at the national as well as international levels. The World Conference on Human
Rights notes that resource constraints and institutional inadequacies may impede the immediate
realization of these objectives.
34. Increased efforts should be made to assist countries which so request to create the conditions
whereby each individual can enjoy universal human rights and fundamental freedoms. Governments,
the United Nations system as well as other multilateral organizations are urged to increase
considerably the resources allocated to programmes aiming at the establishment and strengthening of
national legislation, national institutions and related infrastructures which uphold the rule of law and
democracy, electoral assistance, human rights awareness through training, teaching and education,
popular participation and civil society.
The programmes of advisory services and technical cooperation under the Centre for Human Rights
should be strengthened as well as made more efficient and transparent and thus become a major
contribution to improving respect for human rights. States are called upon to increase their
contributions to these programmes, both through promoting a larger allocation from the United
Nations regular budget, and through voluntary contributions.
35. The full and effective implementation of United Nations activities to promote and protect human
rights must reflect the high importance accorded to human rights by the Charter of the United Nations
and the demands of the United Nations human rights activities, as mandated by Member States. To
this end, United Nations human rights activities should be provided with increased resources.
36. The World Conference on Human Rights reaffirms the important and constructive role played by
national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights, in particular in their advisory
capacity to the competent authorities, their role in remedying human rights violations, in the
dissemination of human rights information, and education in human rights.
The World Conference on Human Rights encourages the establishment and strengthening of national
institutions, having regard to the "Principles relating to the status of national institutions" and
recognizing that it is the right of each State to choose the framework which is best suited to its
particular needs at the national level.
37. Regional arrangements play a fundamental role in promoting and protecting human rights. They
should reinforce universal human rights standards, as contained in international human rights
instruments, and their protection. The World Conference on Human Rights endorses efforts under way
to strengthen these arrangements and to increase their effectiveness, while at the same time stressing
the importance of cooperation with the United Nations human rights activities.
The World Conference on Human Rights reiterates the need to consider the possibility of establishing
regional and subregional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights where they
do not already exist.
38. The World Conference on Human Rights recognizes the important role of non-governmental
organizations in the promotion of all human rights and in humanitarian activities at national, regional
and international levels. The World Conference on Human Rights appreciates their contribution to
increasing public awareness of human rights issues, to the conduct of education, training and research
in this field, and to the promotion and protection of all human rights and fundamental freedoms. While
recognizing that the primary responsibility for standard-setting lies with States, the conference also
appreciates the contribution of non-governmental organizations to this process. In this respect, the
World Conference on Human Rights emphasizes the importance of continued dialogue and cooperation
between Governments and non-governmental organizations. Non-governmental organizations and