A/HRC/RES/43/29 27. Notes the provision of training and technical assistance to Member States by the United Nations to strengthen early warning mechanisms for the prevention of genocide, and other prevention capacities, and encourages Member States to consider requesting such assistance, if required; 28. Invites States as a preventive measure to provide appropriate ways, which may include the establishment of national days of remembrance of victims of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, that will ensure that such horrendous crimes are never forgotten and will provide an opportunity for everyone to learn lessons from the past and to create a safer future; 29. Urges States to continue efforts aimed at the memorialization and remembrance of past genocides as a way to prevent them by educating society; 30. Invites States to contribute to the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal target 4.7 through teaching and learning about, inter alia, past instances and the consequences of genocide; 31. Recalls the adoption by consensus of General Assembly resolution 69/323 on 11 September 2015, in which the Assembly proclaimed 9 December as the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of This Crime; 32. Invites Member States and regional and subregional organizations to observe the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of This Crime with public events that can memorialize and educate, and thereby contribute to preventing the recurrence of genocide and other mass atrocities; 33. Welcomes the role that Member States and international organizations, particularly the United Nations Organization, have played in commemorating past instances of genocide by establishing and observing official days of remembrance; 34. Requests the Secretary-General, in collaboration with the Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect and with relevant entities of the United Nations system, Governments and other stakeholders, to help to ensure the success of the observance by the United Nations of the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and the Prevention of This Crime and to assist Member States, upon request and in compliance with the provisions of resolution 69/323 relating to funding, in organizing activities for the observance of the International Day; 35. Invites the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide to continue to execute the activities under his mandate, including in the follow-up to the present resolution, by providing States with guidance, assistance and follow-up, upon their request; 36. Requests the Secretary-General to draw up a roster of focal points and networks on the prevention of genocide with updated information from Member States; 37. Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to convene, before the forty-sixth session of the Human Rights Council, a one-day intersessional meeting with a dialogue on cooperation in strengthening capacities for the prevention of genocide, which will provide a space for States, relevant United Nations and regional human rights mechanisms, United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, national human rights institutions and other stakeholders, including academic experts and civil society organizations, to share good practices, achievements, challenges and lessons learned on the three main areas for genocide prevention: the strengthening of national capacities; the promotion of States’ participation in regional and subregional initiatives; and the strengthening of early warning and prevention mechanisms within the United Nations system; 38. Also requests the High Commissioner to prepare a summary report on the intersessional meeting and to submit it to the Human Rights Council at its forty-seventh session; 7

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