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5.
Reiterates that States should provide effective criminal penalties and
compensation for unremedied violations in order to end the cycle of impunity with regard to
sexual violence committed during armed conflicts;
6.
Encourages States to promote human rights education on the issues of systematic
rape, sexual slavery and slavery-like practices during armed conflicts, ensuring the accuracy of
accounts of historical events in the educational curricula, in an effort to prevent the recurrence of
such violations and to encourage better understanding among all peoples;
7.
Calls upon the High Commissioner for Human Rights to submit an updated report
to the Sub-Commission at its fifty-ninth session or to its successor body, or, in the absence of
either, to the Human Rights Council on the issues of systematic rape, sexual slavery and
slavery-like practices during armed conflicts;
8.
Decides to consider the issue at its fifty-ninth session under the same agenda item
or request to consider at the first session of any successor body for expert advice.
21st meeting
24 August 2006
[Adopted without a vote. See chap. VIII.]
2006/19. World Programme for Human Rights Education
The Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights,
Recalling its resolutions 2003/5 of 13 August 2003, 2004/18 of 12 August 2004 and
2005/26 of 11 August 2005,
Reaffirming article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in accordance with
which education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the
strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms,
Convinced that human rights education is a key to changing attitudes and behaviour
based on racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and to promoting
tolerance and respect for diversity in societies,
Convinced that human rights education is a long-term and lifelong process by which all
people at all levels of development and in all strata of society learn respect for the dignity of
others, and that human rights education significantly contributes to promoting equality and
sustainable development, preventing conflict and human rights violations and enhancing
participation and democratic processes, with a view to developing societies in which all human
rights of all are valued and respected,
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