A/HRC/28/63 disaster; defenders living in isolated regions; and defenders working on past abuses, such as the families of victims of enforced disappearance; (g) Provide State officials, particularly those who are in direct contact with communities of human rights defenders, with the necessary training on their role and rights and on the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders; (h) Establish a national human rights institution or reform an existing institution in accordance with the Paris Principles and give it a mandate covering the protection and promotion of human rights defenders; (i) Ensure that human rights defenders can participate without hindrance in the mechanisms of the United Nations and regional intergovernmental organizations, particularly within the framework of the universal periodic review and reports to the human rights treaty bodies; (j) Ensure that acts of intimidation and reprisals against human rights defenders who cooperate with the United Nations, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights and with international human rights bodies are firmly and unequivocally condemned; (k) Ensure that any legislation criminalizing activities in defence of human rights through cooperation with international mechanisms is repealed; (l) Undertake to implement and translate into their national language and local languages the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders in order to enable all human rights defenders to obtain access to it; (m) In the case of countries that have adopted guidelines on the protection of human rights defenders, ensure that their embassies undertake a proper assessment of the effectiveness of their implementation; (n) Provide embassies with funds earmarked for human rights defenders and facilitate access by defenders to international funding; (o) Devote a chapter specifically to the question of human rights defenders in their national or international reports on the human rights situation; (p) Undertake to implement Council resolution 24/24 on reprisals, allowing the designation of a high-level focal point to the United Nations, and, where appropriate, also designate a national focal point responsible for dealing with the question of reprisals at the national and international levels. 125. The United Nations should: (a) Ensure that all agencies and programmes of the Organization are made more aware of the question of human rights defenders; (b) Ensure that specific measures relating to human rights defenders are included in its programmes and activities; (c) Ensure that resident coordinators provide human rights defenders who are subjected to threats with systematic support and protection. 126. National human rights institutions should: (a) Take effective measures to protect human rights defenders when they are in danger; (b) Participate in the follow-up to recommendations by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders; GE.14-25280 19