• establishing educational programs in schools; • promoting tertiary programs on the environment and environmental law; • using the internet and other media to disseminate information and increase awareness of the link between environmental harms and human rights; and • educating the public on the impact of climate change on the environment both internally and extra-territorially. Environmentally displaced and affected persons 5. Displaced Persons Given the increasing impact of environmental degradation and natural disasters in the region, and the resulting displacement of communities and erosion of living conditions, NHRIs are urged to encourage their states to evolve and strengthen humanitarian principles and values, disaster response, disaster preparedness, and health and care in the community;121 including measures to accommodate displaced persons in a culturally appropriate manner that takes account of their human rights. Particular projects of importance in the region 6.1 Millennium Development Goals NHRIs are urged to encourage states to fulfil their commitments under the Millennium Development Goals, and, in particular, in relation to access to water and sanitation, child and maternal mortality. 6.2 Cooperative Projects NHRIs are urged to facilitate the development of particular environmental projects (either individually or in collaboration with other NHRIs) on issues of relevance to their communities, including for example, specific projects on access to water (including clean drinking water), sanitation and air quality, the remedying of environmental degradation and disposal of waste in a sustained manner. 122 General 7.1 Collaboration NHRIs are urged to take proactive and innovative measures to promote and protect the environment, including through supporting and initiating a combination of programs and policies best suited to the needs of the individual communities and peoples within their state. NHRIs are urged to consider working in collaboration with other NHRIs, their governments, NGOs, communities, peoples and other members of civil society in the region. 7.2 Dissemination NHRIs should disseminate the recommendations of the ACJ on the right to environment and translate them as appropriate. They should interlink with relevant national authorities and other key actors to discuss and promote implementation of the said recommendations. 121 International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, What We Do at: <http://www.ifrc.org/what/index.asp?navid=04_01> at 18 October 2007. 122 See for example the Strategic Action Programme for International Waters of the Pacific Region, 1997. Available at: http://www.iwlearn.net/iw-projects/sprep/reports/pacificislands_sap_1997.pdf (last accessed 5 June 2008). - 36 -