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and requests her to continue to coordinate all relevant activities within the United Nations system, bearing
in mind the provisions of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action2 for evaluation and follow-up;
2. Encourages all Governments and other actors to undertake additional efforts to develop
education and information programmes, with a view to disseminating the text of the Declaration and
arriving at a better understanding thereof, and emphasizes in that regard the primary importance of grassroots initiatives in promoting, through education and the media, a culture of all human rights and
fundamental freedoms for all;
3. Invites Governments and the international community to continue to review and assess the
progress made in the field of human rights since the adoption of the Declaration and to identify obstacles
and ways in which they can be overcome, both through measures at the national level and through
enhanced international cooperation, with a view to ensuring full enjoyment of all human rights and
fundamental freedoms for all, taking into account developments that have taken place during the past fifty
years;
4. Urges Governments to endorse and implement national programmes for the celebration of the
fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration and to ensure wide participation, including the participation of
public administration institutions, national institutions, non-governmental organizations, academic circles
and all strata of civil society, and thereby to bring the letter and spirit of the Declaration to the awareness
of all;
5. Urges those Governments that have not yet ratified the international human rights treaties and
protocols adopted within the framework of the United Nations system to consider doing so, and calls upon
all Governments to implement fully their international obligations in the field of human rights;
6. Invites the human rights treaty bodies to give appropriate attention, within their mandates and
methods of work, to the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration and to reflect on their possible contribution
to the above-mentioned preparations;
7. Calls upon relevant United Nations organs and agencies, in the light of the principles set forth
in the Declaration, to make, within their respective mandates and fields of action, an assessment of the
state of implementation and the impact of existing international human rights instruments and to put
forward pertinent conclusions thereon;
8. Invites relevant United Nations organs and agencies, in coordination with the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights, to mark the anniversary by intensifying their own contributions
to United Nations system-wide efforts to promote and protect all human rights and fundamental freedoms;
9. Invites Governments, the Secretariat, the Office of Communications and Public Information of
the Secretariat, relevant organs and agencies of the United Nations system, within their respective
mandates, including the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, other
international organizations and non-governmental organizations, to disseminate widely the Declaration,
as well as other international instruments in the field of human rights, with a view to ensuring the
universality and full and comprehensive enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms;
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