A/HRC/RES/38/12 8. Urges all non-State actors to respect all human rights and not to undermine the capacity of civil society to operate free from hindrance and insecurity; 9. Emphasizes the essential contribution that civil society makes to regional and international organizations, including through advocacy and awareness-raising, the sharing of expertise and knowledge, and implementation, monitoring and evaluation processes, and once again unequivocally reaffirms the right of everyone, individually and in association with others, to unhindered access to and communication with regional and international bodies, and their representatives and mechanisms; 10. Recognizes the valuable contribution of national, regional and international human rights mechanisms and bodies, including the universal periodic review and the special procedures of the Human Rights Council, the human rights treaty bodies and national human rights institutions, to the promotion and protection of civil society space; 11. Also recognizes that the effective functioning of the above-mentioned regional and international human rights mechanisms and bodies is inexorably linked to civil society participation; 12. Encourages the special procedures of the Human Rights Council, the treaty bodies and relevant United Nations bodies, agencies, funds and programmes to continue to address relevant aspects of civil society space in the framework of their respective mandates; 13. Urges States to ensure that the issue of the creation and maintenance of a safe and enabling environment for civil society is addressed in the context of the universal periodic review, and encourages States in that regard to consult civil society in the preparation of their national reports, to consider including in their national reports information on relevant domestic provisions and steps, to consider making relevant recommendations to States under review and to assist States in the implementation of relevant recommendations through, inter alia, the sharing of experiences, good practices and expertise and offering technical assistance on the basis of requests and with the consent of the States concerned, and conducting broad consultations with civil society in the followup to their review, in compliance with Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1 of 18 June 2007 and 16/21 of 25 March 2011; 14. Takes note with appreciation of the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on procedures and practices in respect of civil society engagement with international and regional organizations, 1 and notes the concerns expressed therein regarding the challenges facing civil society in this regard; 15. Encourages States to apply good practices, including, but not limited to, those compiled in the report of the High Commissioner on practical recommendations for the creation and maintenance of a safe and enabling environment for civil society, 2 and the good procedures and practices identified by the High Commissioner in his report on procedures and practices in respect of civil society engagement with international and regional organizations;1 16. Invites States to seek technical assistance and advice in this regard, including from the Office of the High Commissioner, relevant special procedures of the Human Rights Council and from regional human rights mechanisms; 17. Calls upon States to review, and update as appropriate, their frameworks for engagement with civil society to ensure that those frameworks reflect and respond to the challenges faced, in order to support improved civil society engagement with international and regional organizations, and welcomes efforts already made in this regard; 18. Strongly encourages all relevant United Nations bodies to review, and update as appropriate, their frameworks for engagement with civil society to ensure that those frameworks reflect and respond to the challenges faced, in order to support improved civil 1 2 4 A/HRC/38/18. A/HRC/32/20.