71. While the promotional activities of the Office in relation to international protection are primarily carried out in close co-operation with Governments, the Office is also mindful of the concomitant need to promote a favourable climate of opinion, in particular amongst persons dealing with refugee matters, practising lawyers and social workers and in academic circles.
72. Activities in this regard have included co-operation with the United Nations' Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the International Red Cross and international academic and professional institutions such as, most notably in the present period, the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, at San Remo and the International Institute of Human Rights, at Strasbourg, to which UNHCR staff members have given lectures and contributed papers at seminars on aspects of international protection or refugee law. Also of particular significance during 1978 was the adoption in the final document of the International Congress on the Teaching of Human Rights held in Vienna during September 1978, of a recommendation that the fundamental rights of refugees be included in the various programmes for the teaching of human rights. This document was subsequently endorsed by a United Nations Seminar on the promotion and protection of human rights, which also noted the special role of UNHCR in the promotion of human rights, and particularly those of refugees. The Office has maintained regular contact with a number of non-governmental organizations active in this field including the Association for the Study of the World Refugee Problem and the International Commission of Jurists.
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