A/HRC/RES/13/15
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
15 April 2010
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirteenth session
Agenda item 5
Human rights bodies and mechanisms
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council*
13/15
United Nations declaration on human rights education and
training
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling Council resolutions 6/10 of 28 September 2007 and 10/28 of 27 March
2009, in which the Council mandated the Advisory Committee to elaborate a draft United
Nations declaration on human rights education and training and to submit it to the Council
at its thirteenth session,
Welcoming the open and rich debate witnessed during the high-level discussion on
the draft declaration, held on 2 March 2010, in accordance with Council decision 12/118 of
1 October 2009,
Welcoming also the submission of the draft declaration by the Advisory Committee
contained in its study submitted to the Council (A/HRC/13/41),
1.
Decides to establish an open-ended intergovernmental working group with
the mandate of negotiating, finalizing and submitting to the Council the draft United
Nations declaration on human rights education and training on the basis of the draft
submitted by the Advisory Committee;
2.
Also decides that the working group shall meet for a maximum of five
working days before its sixteenth session;
3.
Welcomes the decision of the Platform on Human Rights Education and
Training to hold open-ended informal consultations prior to the convening of the working
group;
4.
Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights to provide the working group with the necessary assistance for it to fulfil its
*
GE.10-12914
The resolutions and decisions of the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of the
Council on its thirteenth session (A/HRC/13/56), chap. I.
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