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Crime, the World Customs Organization and the International Criminal Police
Organization, within the scope of their respective mandates;
5.
Encourages the strengthening of dialogue and cooperation between relevant
international organizations and States affected by the organized looting, theft or smuggling
of or illicit trafficking in cultural property, including through the provision of support and
technical assistance aimed at enhancing their national capacities to restore, protect and
preserve cultural heritage and property;
6.
Calls for the development of partnerships between competent national
authorities and civil society, in particular grass-roots institutions, with the aim of enhancing
the protection of cultural rights and promoting the right of everyone to participate in
cultural life, including the ability to access and enjoy cultural heritage;
7.
Also calls for the identification of innovative ways and best practices, at the
national, regional and international levels, for the prevention of violations and abuses of
cultural rights, and for the prevention and mitigation of damage caused to cultural heritage,
both tangible or intangible;
8.
Further calls for the recognition of the protection of cultural heritage as an
important component of humanitarian assistance, including in armed conflict and with
regard also to displaced populations;
9.
Encourages States to adopt a gender-sensitive approach to the protection of
cultural heritage and the safeguarding of cultural rights;
10.
Calls for the safety and security of cultural rights defenders involved in the
protection of cultural heritage to be protected, including by investigating and, where
appropriate, bringing to justice anyone alleged to have harmed them;
11.
Invites States to adopt effective strategies to prevent the destruction of
cultural heritage by, inter alia, ensuring accountability, documenting the cultural heritage
within their jurisdiction, including through digital means, implementing educational
programmes on the importance of cultural heritage and cultural rights and training military
forces in all relevant rules concerning the protection of cultural heritage, both during and in
the aftermath of armed conflict;
12.
Encourages States to consider implementing the recommendations on
intentional destruction of cultural heritage made by the Special Rapporteur in the field of
cultural rights in her reports presented to the Human Rights Council1 and to the General
Assembly;2
13.
Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights:
(a)
To convene, before the thirty-sixth session of the Human Rights Council, a
one-day intersessional seminar on ways to prevent, contain and/or mitigate the detrimental
impact of the damage to or destruction of cultural heritage on the enjoyment of human
rights, including cultural rights by all, and on best practices in this regard;
(b)
To invite States, the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights and
other relevant stakeholders from diverse regions, including experts and civil society
organizations, and relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, other
international organizations and cultural rights defenders involved in the protection of
cultural heritage to participate actively in the above-mentioned seminar;
2
A/71/317.
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