A/HRC/10/29 Recalling also Council resolutions 6/9 of 28 September 2007 on the development of public information activities in the field of human rights and 6/24 of 28 September 2007, in which the Council extended to December 2009 the first phase of the World Programme focusing on the primary and secondary school systems, Noting paragraphs 49 to 51 of the Plan of Action of the first phase of the World Programme, according to which, at the conclusion of the first phase, Member States are expected to prepare their national evaluation reports, taking into consideration progress made in a number of areas, such as legal frameworks and policies, curricula, teaching and learning processes and tools, revision of textbooks, teacher training and improvement of the school environment, and to provide their final national evaluation reports to the United Nations Inter-Agency Coordinating Committee on Human Rights Education in the School System through the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 1. Takes note of the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the World Programme for Human Rights Education (A/HRC/9/4); 2. Requests the High Commissioner to consult with States Members of the United Nations, national human rights institutions and intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations on the possible focus, in terms of target sector or thematic area, of the second phase of the World Programme to begin on 1 January 2010, and to submit a report on those consultations to the Council at its twelfth session; 3. Encourages States Members of the United Nations to start taking steps for the preparation of their national evaluation reports on the first phase, with the assistance of international and regional organizations, as well as civil society actors, to be provided to the United Nations Inter-Agency Coordinating Committee on Human Rights Education in the School System early in 2010; 4. Decides to consider this issue at its twelfth session under the same agenda item. 41st meeting 25 March 2009 [Adopted without a vote. See part II, chap. III.] 10/4 Human rights and climate change The Human Rights Council, Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, and reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, Reaffirming the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the objectives and principles thereof, and welcoming the decisions of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, held in Bali, Indonesia, in December 2007, and in particular the adoption of the Bali Action Plan, Reaffirming also the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21, the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development and the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, and recognizing that human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development and that the right to development must be fulfilled GE.09-17451 11

Select target paragraph3

Connect to a paragraph
Connect to an entity
Disable highlights
Add to table of contents