A/HRC/27/51 inequality, and call for conversion from military production to civilian production, including strategies to create employment in peaceful industries. 80. Civil society and national human rights institutions should demand transparency and accountability from government officials in matters of fiscal and budgetary policy. 81. Demand from government that it redirect its energy policies toward research into renewable energy, and transition to renewable energy in a manner consistent with the United Nations Decade of Sustainable Energy for All. 82. Support the global campaign on military spending.90 83. Launch petition campaigns for disarmament as a necessary condition for development. 84. Build a wide alliance of groups that would benefit from a realignment of national budget priorities. 85. Divest from funds and investments that are used for arms production, war and nuclear research. 4. Recommendations to the Human Rights Council 86. The Council may consider tasking an existing mandate holder to focus on worldwide military expenditures and to report every year to the Council and to the General Assembly on trends and options. 87. Under the universal periodic review procedure, the conduct of States should be reviewed with regard to unilateral and multilateral coercive measures that result in grave violations of the human rights of the affected populations. 88. The Council may consider assigning to an existing mandate holder the task of monitoring war propaganda and fear-mongering worldwide, on the basis of the prohibition of war propaganda stipulated in article 20, paragraph 1, of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.91 VI. Postscript 89. The Independent Expert is grateful that enhanced recognition of the mandate is leading to greater consciousness about the need to work together for a peaceful, just and equitable world order. He welcomes contact with stakeholders from all related fields and looks forward to engaging with them in the upcoming reporting year. 90. By way of conclusion, the Independent Expert would like to reiterate his expression of appreciation to the hard-working OHCHR staff, and request the General Assembly to give increased resources to that secretariat, which actually makes a difference in the lives of many people. He would like to quote from a favourite poet, Walt Whitman: “the greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad foil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are 90 91 24 See www.ipb.org/web/. This recommendation is similar to that on the creation of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance (stemming from article 20, paragraph 2, of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights).