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(42.3) - will encourage their competent authorities responsible for education programmes to
design effective human rights related curricula and courses for students at all levels, particularly students of law, administration and social sciences as well as those attending military,
police and public service schools;
(42.4) - will make information on all CSCE human dimension provisions available to
their educators;
(42.5) - will encourage organizations and educational establishments to co-operate in drawing
up and exchanging human rights programmes at the national as well as the international level;
(42.6) - will seek to ensure that activities undertaken with a view to promoting human rights
education in the broader sense take into account experience, programmes and forms of co-operation within existing international governmental and non-governmental bodies, such as the
United Nations and the Council of Europe.
(43) The participating States will recognize as NGOs those which declare themselves as such,
according to existing national procedures, and will facilitate the ability of such organizations
to conduct their national activities freely on their territories; to that effect they will
(43.1) - endeavour to seek ways of further strengthening modalities for contacts and exchanges of views between NGOs and relevant national authorities and governmental institutions;
(43.2) - endeavour to facilitate visits to their countries by NGOs from within any of the participating States in order to observe human dimension conditions;
(43.3) - welcome NGO activities, including, inter alia, observing compliance with CSCE commitments in the field of the human dimension;
(43.4) - allow NGOs, in view of their important function within the human dimension of the
CSCE, to convey their views to their own governments and the governments of all the other
participating States during the future work of the CSCE on the human dimension.
(43.5) During the future work of the CSCE on the human dimension, NGOs will have the opportunity to distribute written contributions on specific issues of the human dimension of the
CSCE to all delegations.
(43.6) The CSCE Secretariat will, within the framework of the resources at its disposal, respond favourably to requests by NGOs for non-restricted documents of the CSCE.
(43.7) Guidelines for the participation of NGOs in the future work of the CSCE on the human
dimension might, inter alia, include the following:
(i) NGOs should be allotted common space at such meeting sites or in their immediate vicinity for their use as well as reasonable access, at their own expense, to technical facilities, including photocopying machines, telephones and fax machines;
(ii) NGOs should be informed and briefed on openness and access procedures in a timely
manner;
(iii) delegations to CSCE meetings should be further encouraged to include or invite NGO
members.
The participating States recommend that the Helsinki Follow-up Meeting consider establishing such guidelines.
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