A/HRC/12/50
of 24 August 2006, on the World Programme for Human Rights Education, structured in
consecutive phases,
Recalling also Council resolutions 6/9 of 28 September 2007 on the development of
public information activities in the field of human rights, 6/24 of 28 September 2007, in
which the Council extended to December 2009 the first phase of the World Programme
focusing on primary and secondary school systems, 9/12 of 24 September 2008, in which
the Council established among the human rights voluntary goals the adoption and
implementation of programmes of human rights education in all learning institutions, and
10/3 of 25 March 2009, on consultation on the focus of the second phase of the World
Programme,
Recalling further that the World Programme is structured on an ongoing series of
consecutive phases, intended as a comprehensive process, including formal and informal
education and training, and that Member States should continue the implementation of
human rights education in primary and secondary school systems, while taking the
necessary measures to implement the World Programme according to its new focus,
1.
Takes note of the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights on the consultation on the focus of the second phase of the World
Programme for Human Rights Education (A/HRC/12/36);
2.
Decides to focus the second phase of the World Programme on human rights
education for higher education and on human rights training programmes for teachers and
educators, civil servants, law enforcement officials and military personnel at all levels;
3.
Encourages States that have not yet taken steps to incorporate human rights
education in the primary and secondary school system to do so, in accordance with the Plan
of Action of the first phase of the World Programme;
4.
Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights to prepare, within existing resources, in cooperation with relevant intergovernmental
organizations, in particular the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO) and non-governmental actors, consult States on and submit for
consideration to the fifteenth session of the Human Rights Council (September 2010), a
plan of action for the second phase of the World Programme (2010-2014), keeping in mind
that it shall be properly structured, formulated in realistic terms, with an indication of at
least minimum action, and including provisions to support activities undertaken by all
actors;
5.
Recommends that the Secretary-General ensure that an adequate component
of United Nations assistance, to be provided at the request of Member States to develop
their national systems of promotion and protection of human rights, is available to support
human rights education;
6.
Reminds Member States of the need to prepare and submit their national
evaluation reports on the first phase of the World Programme to the United Nations InterAgency Coordinating Committee on Human Rights Education in the School System by
early 2010;
7.
Requests the Coordinating Committee to submit a final evaluation report of
the implementation of the first phase of the World Programme, based on national
evaluation reports, in cooperation with relevant international, regional and nongovernmental organizations, to the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session;
8.
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Decides to consider this issue at its fifteenth session under the same agenda
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