A/HRC/RES/57/23 members or staff of national human rights institutions or against individuals who cooperate or seek to cooperate with them and to bring perpetrators to justice; 6. Encourages all relevant United Nations mechanisms and processes, in accordance with their respective mandates, including the Economic and Social Council, including the Commission on the Status of Women, and the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the high-level political forum on sustainable development and related global and regional processes, to further enhance the participation of national human rights institutions compliant with the Paris Principles and to allow for their contribution to these United Nations mechanisms and processes, bearing in mind the relevant provisions dealing with their participation contained in General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, Commission on Human Rights resolution 2005/74 of 20 April 2005 and Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1 of 18 June 2007, 5/2 of 18 June 2007 and 16/21 of 25 March 2011; 7. Welcomes the important role of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions, in close cooperation with the Office of the High Commissioner, in assessing conformity with the Paris Principles and in assisting States and national institutions, when requested, to strengthen national human rights institutions in accordance with such principles, also welcomes the continuing number of national institutions seeking accreditation status through the Global Alliance, and encourages relevant national institutions, including ombudsman institutions, to seek accreditation status; 8. Encourages the Secretary-General and all United Nations human rights mechanisms and relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, working within their respective mandates, to continue to give high priority to requests from States for assistance in the establishment and strengthening of national human rights institutions, to work with States and national human rights institutions in the protection and promotion of human rights and to strengthen United Nations system-wide coordination in support of national human rights institutions; 9. Recognizes the contribution that national human rights institutions have made to the promotion and protection, and prevention of violations, of human rights by exercising their mandates and functions consistent with the Paris Principles, and encourages them to continue to do so, including by: (a) Independently assisting, advising and engaging with the State, and other stakeholders, in the prevention of violations and abuses of human rights; (b) Encouraging the ratification, and ensuring the implementation, of international human rights treaties; (c) Promoting legal, policy and procedural reforms, including to promote and ensure the harmonization of national laws and practices with the international human rights instruments to which a State is a party, and their effective implementation; (d) Cooperating with the United Nations system, including by contributing, as appropriate, to follow-up actions to the recommendations made by international human rights mechanisms; (e) Conducting and promoting at all levels practical and relevant human rights training and education, and raising public awareness and advocacy about the promotion and protection of human rights and efforts to combat all forms of discrimination; (f) Working with non-governmental organizations devoted to promoting and protecting human rights and economic and social development, combating racism and protecting groups subject to particular vulnerabilities, marginalization or intersecting forms of discrimination, or specialized areas; (g) Preparing and publicizing reports on the national situation with regard to human rights, drawing the attention of the Government to situations in any part of the country in which human rights are violated, making proposals to put an end to such situations and, where necessary, expressing an opinion on the positions and reactions of the Government; 5