A/HRC/11/37 (d) To make available to all detainees comprehensive education programmes aimed at the development of the full potential of each detainee; (e) To incorporate human rights education in the programmes; (f) To develop individual education plans with the full participation of the detainee, taking into account the diverse backgrounds and needs of persons in detention, including women, persons belonging to minority and indigenous groups, persons of foreign origin and persons with physical, learning and psychosocial disabilities, while recalling that a detainee may belong to more than one of these groups; (g) To integrate education programmes into the public school system in order to allow for the continuation of education upon release; (h) To ensure appropriate professional training and working conditions and a safe working environment for teachers in places of detention; (i) To evaluate and monitor all education programmes in places of detention, and to undertake multidisciplinary and detailed research in this regard; (j) To share best practices concerning education programmes in detention; (k) To produce and deliver adequate pedagogical materials for persons in detention, including appropriate opportunities to receive education and training in the use of new information technologies; (l) To ensure that primary education is compulsory, accessible and available free to all, including to all children in detention or living in prisons; (m) To ensure curricula and educational practices that are gender-sensitive but not gender-stereotypical in places of detention, in order to fulfil the right to education of women and girls; 11. Encourages the Office of the High Commissioner, the treaty bodies, the special procedures of the Council and other relevant United Nations bodies and mechanisms, specialized agencies or programmes, within their respective mandates, to continue their efforts to promote the realization of the right to education worldwide and to enhance their cooperation in this regard; 12. Notes with appreciation the Special Rapporteur’s intention to focus his 2010 annual report on the right to education of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers; 13. Decides to remain seized of the matter. 27th meeting 17 June 2009 [Adopted without a vote. See part II, chap. III.] 11/7. Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children The Human Rights Council, Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Convention in 2009, Reaffirming also all previous resolutions on the rights of the child of the Council, the Commission on Human Rights and the General Assembly, the most recent being Council resolutions 7/29 of 28 March 2008, 9/13 of 24 September 2008 and 10/8 of 26 March 2009 and Assembly resolution 63/241 of 24 December 2008, GE.09-16766 23

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