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(41.5) - to encourage favourable conditions for the access of persons with disabilities to
public buildings and services, housing, transport, and cultural and recreational activities.
(42) The participating States
(42.1) - affirm that human rights education is fundamental and that it is therefore essential that their citizens are educated on human rights and fundamental freedoms and the
commitment to respect such rights and freedoms in domestic legislation and international instruments to which they may be parties;
(42.2) - recognize that effective human rights education contributes to combating intolerance, religious, racial and ethnic prejudice and hatred, including against Roma, xenophobia and anti-semitism;
(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;
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