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make these data available to the relevant entities, in particular the Office of the High
Commissioner and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization;
19.
Stresses the need to ensure better cooperation and coordination at the
international level, including through technical assistance and capacity-building, with
regard to ensuring the safety of journalists, and encourages national, subregional, regional
and international human rights mechanisms and bodies, including the relevant special
procedures of the Human Rights Council, treaty bodies and national human rights
institutions, in the framework of their mandates, to continue to address the relevant aspects
of the safety of journalists in their work;
20.
Invites United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, other international
and regional organizations, Member States and all relevant stakeholders, when applicable
and in the scope of their mandates, to cooperate further in promoting awareness of and
implementing the United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue
of Impunity, and to this end calls upon States to cooperate with relevant United Nations
entities, in particular the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization,
relevant special procedures of the Human Rights Council and international and regional
human rights mechanisms;
21.
Invites States to share information on a voluntary basis on the status of
investigations into attacks and violence against journalists, including in response to requests
by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization through the
mechanism operated by its International Programme for the Development of
Communication;
22.
Encourages States to continue to address the issue of the safety of journalists
through the process of the universal periodic review;
23.
Decides to continue its consideration of the safety of journalists in
accordance with its programme of work.
39th meeting
27 September 2018
[Adopted without a vote.]
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