Human Rights Council
Tenth Session
Resolution 10/3. World Programme for Human Rights Education
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling General Assembly resolutions 43/128 of 8 December 1988, in which the
Assembly launched the World Public Information Campaign on Human Rights, 59/113 A of
10 December 2004, 59/113 B of 14 July 2005 and 60/251 of 15 March 2006, in which the
Assembly decided, inter alia, that the Human Rights Council would promote human rights
education and learning, as well as Commission on Human Rights resolution 2005/61 of
20 April 2005 and Subcommission for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
resolution 2006/19 of 24 August 2006, concerning the World Programme for Human Rights
Education, structured in consecutive phases, and the Plan of Action for its first phase
(2005-2007),
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 non-governmental
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;
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