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3. Invites Governments to provide training, including gender-sensitive training, in human rights in
the administration of justice, including juvenile justice, to all judges, lawyers, prosecutors, social workers
and other professionals concerned, including police and immigration officers;
4. Invites States to make use of technical assistance offered by the United Nations programmes of
technical assistance in order to strengthen national capacities and infrastructures in the field of
administration of justice;
5. Invites the international community to respond favourably to requests for financial and technical
assistance for the enhancement and strengthening of the administration of justice;
6. Calls upon the Secretary-General to strengthen system-wide coordination in the field of
administration of justice, in particular between the United Nations programmes in the fields of human
rights and crime prevention and criminal justice;
7. Calls upon the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as well as mechanisms
of the Commission on Human Rights and its subsidiary bodies, including special rapporteurs, special
representatives and working groups, to continue to give special attention to questions relating to the
effective promotion of human rights in the administration of justice and to provide, where appropriate,
specific recommendations in this regard, including proposals for measures to provide advisory services
and technical assistance;
8. Invites the Commission on Human Rights and the Commission on Crime Prevention and
Criminal Justice to coordinate closely their activities relating to the administration of justice;
9. Decides to consider the question of human rights in the administration of justice at its fiftyfourth session under the item entitled "Human rights questions".
70th plenary meeting
12 December 1997