A/HRC/2/2 A/HRC/Sub.1/58/36 page 60 Reaffirming the need for continued actions at the international level to support national efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by the year 2015, in particular universal access to basic education for all, including human rights education, and for human rights education as a means of empowering groups suffering discrimination, particularly women and the poor, Recognizing the invaluable and creative role that non-governmental and community-based organizations play in the promotion and protection of human rights by disseminating public information and engaging in human rights education, especially at the grass-roots level and in remote and rural communities, and taking into account their concern regarding the continuation of activities undertaken during the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education, 1995-2004, Recalling the views expressed in the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to the Commission on Human Rights on the achievements and shortcomings of the Decade and on future activities in this area (E/CN.4/2004/93), and the views expressed in the report of the High Commissioner to the Commission on the follow-up to the Decade (E/CN.4/2003/101) as to the need to continue a global framework for human rights education beyond the Decade in order to ensure a priority focus on human rights education within the international agenda, provide a common collective framework for action for all relevant actors, support existing programmes and provide an incentive for the development of new ones, as well as enhance partnership and cooperation at all levels, Recalling General Assembly resolution 58/181 of 22 December 2003, in which the Assembly decided to dedicate a plenary meeting during its fifty-ninth session on the occasion of Human Rights Day, 10 December 2004, to review the achievements of the Decade and to discuss possible future activities for the enhancement of human rights education, Recalling also Commission on Human Rights resolution 2004/71 of 15 April 2004 and Economic and Social Council decision 2004/268 of 22 July 2004 recommending that the General Assembly proclaim at its fifty-ninth session a world programme for human rights education to begin on 1 January 2005, structured in consecutive phases, the first phase of which will focus on primary and secondary school systems on the basis of plan of action to be prepared by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, in cooperation with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and other relevant governmental and non-governmental actors, Noting with appreciation that the overall objective of the world programme, as stated in paragraph 3 of Commission resolution 2004/71, is to maintain and develop the implementation of human rights education programmes in all sectors, and drawing attention to the fact that the development of innovative human rights education strategies in the formal education sector, with an indication of at least minimum action, as requested by the Commission, should not preclude lasting support for activities carried out in other sectors, in particular programmes developed at grass-roots level and aimed at promoting human rights education for vulnerable groups such as populations involved in post-conflict reconstruction, women and other groups suffering from discrimination, and the poor as actors of development and social change,