CCPR, GC 25, p. 11: Voter education and registration campaigns are necessary to ensure the effective exercise of Article 25 rights by an informed community. CRC/C/NOR/CO/4, Norway (2010), p 25: […] in line with article 29 of the Convention, to ensure that the pilot project on voting from the age of 16 is appropriately supported through the provision of civic and human rights education and that impact of the project on the citizenship role of adolescents is evaluated. A/HRC/RES/19/36 (2012), p. 19: [The Human Right Council] invites intergovernmental regional, subregional and other organizations and arrangements, national human rights institutions and relevant nongovernmental organizations to engage actively in work at the local, national, sub-regional and regional levels to consistently support and consolidate democracy and the rule of law, and to initiate exchanges with the United Nations system on their experiences by, inter alia: (c) Encouraging the study, in schools and universities, of democracy, the rule of law, human rights and good governance, as well as the functioning of public administration, political institutions and civil society organizations; (d) Elaborating and widely distributing reports, assessments, training materials, handbooks, case studies and documentation on various types of democratic constitutions, electoral systems and administration in order to assist populations in making more informed choices. CEDAW/C/TJK/CO/3 (2007), Tajikistan, p. 26: It (the Committee) further urges the State party to establish legal safeguards that would prevent the practice of family voting and to continue to conduct educational campaigns seeking to explain that voting for others is not acceptable and could invalidate the results of elections. 11.2 Is the EMB responsible for voter education and voter information? Transparency and the Right to Information; States Must Take Necessary Steps to Give Effect to Rights UNCAC, Art. 13(1): Each State Party shall take appropriate measures, within its means and in accordance with fundamental principles of its domestic law, to promote the active participation of individuals and groups outside the public sector, […] in the prevention of and the fight against corruption and to raise public awareness regarding the existence, causes and gravity of and the threat posed by corruption. This participation should be strengthened by such measures as: (b) Ensuring that the public has effective access to information. ICCPR, Art. 2(2): Where not already provided for by existing legislative or other measures, each State Party to the present Covenant undertakes to take the necessary steps, in accordance with its constitutional processes and with the provisions of the present Covenant, to adopt such laws or other measures as may be necessary to give effect to the rights recognized in the present Covenant. ICCPR, Art. 19(2): Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice. UNSC Res. 1389 (2002), p. 6: Notes with appreciation the ongoing support provided by the Public Information Section of UNAMSIL to the National Electoral Commission in designing and implementing a civic education and public information strategy, and encourages UNAMSIL to continue these efforts. CCPR, GC 31, p. 7: […] The Committee believes that it is important to raise levels of awareness about the Covenant not only among public officials and State agents but also among the population at large. International Obligations for Elections 161 Part B. Electoral Components and Tables of Jurisprudence CCPR, GC 34, p. 18: Article 19 (of the ICCPR), paragraph 2 embraces a right of access to information held by public bodies. Such information includes records held by a public body, regardless of the form in which the information is stored, its source and the date of production. […] As has already been noted, taken together with article 25 of the Covenant, the right of access to information includes a right whereby the media has access to information on public affairs and the right of the general public to receive media output […] p. 19: To give effect to the right of access to information, States parties should proactively put in the public domain Government information of public interest. States parties should make every effort to ensure easy, prompt, effective and practical access to such information […].