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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;
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