A/HRC/37/29 Armed forces, peacekeeping missions and humanitarian actors 104. States should: (a) Recognize the protection of cultural heritage and cultural rights as a critical component of humanitarian assistance, peacekeeping and peacebuilding before, during and after conflict; (b) Systematically incorporate cultural heritage awareness and safeguarding, as well as respect and protection of cultural rights, in the mandate and relevant rules of engagement of armed forces, peacekeeping missions and humanitarian actors and in peacebuilding and post-conflict reconciliation initiatives, and ensure adequate training concerning these aspects. Measures to curb illicit trade in cultural property 105. States should: (a) Adopt legal and judicial measures to criminalize the illicit import and export of cultural property, the looting of archaeological and cultural sites and their illicit excavation, in compliance with relevant international standards; (b) Adopt administrative, financial, fiscal and educational measures, consistent with international standards, to thwart the markets for trafficked cultural property. Recommendations addressed to the international community 106. The international community should: (a) Provide technical and financial support to national and international institutions in the cultural heritage sector that integrate a human rights approach; (b) Mobilize resources to support local populations, heritage defenders and indigenous peoples working on the protection of cultural heritage; (c) Consider the creation of a mechanism for systematically collecting, analysing and distributing information on at-risk cultural heritage defenders around the world; (d) Consider, where relevant, addressing cultural rights and cultural heritage issues in the work of the Human Rights Council, including the universal periodic review, with a focus on the following issues: protection, participation, international cooperation, access, freedom, security of persons working on heritage and ratification of relevant instruments; (e) Encourage continued support from States, including the core group that sponsored Council resolution 33/20, for the findings and recommendations of the present report, including through the adoption of new, action-oriented resolutions; (f) Consider establishing a contact group of interested States, concerned United Nations mechanisms and civil society representatives to carry them forward. Recommendations addressed to the United Nations 107. The United Nations should: (a) Strengthen the collaboration between UNESCO, OHCHR and the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights to ensure the mainstreaming of a human rights approach to the protection of cultural heritage in their work and that of other relevant human rights mechanisms, as well as to promote consideration of cultural rights within humanitarian, security and peacebuilding operations; 17