A/HRC/30/24 I. Introduction A. Background 1. The General Assembly, in resolution 59/113A, proclaimed the World Programme for Human Rights Education as a global initiative to advance the implementation of human rights education in all sectors. The programme is structured in consecutive phases during which different sectors are selected for particular national attention. The first phase covered the period 2005 to 2009 and focused on integrating human rights education in primary and secondary schools. An evaluation of that first phase was conducted in 2010 and is available in document A/65/322. 2. The Human Rights Council, in resolution 12/4, decided that the second phase of the programme, covering the period 2010 to 2014, would focus on human rights education in higher education and on human rights training for teachers and educators, civil servants, law enforcement officials and military personnel at all levels. A plan of action to that end was adopted by the Council in September 2010. The plan provided that, in early 2015, at the conclusion of the second phase, each country would undertake an evaluation of actions carried out and submit a national evaluation report to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), which would prepare a global evaluation report to be submitted to the Council in 2015. 3. As requested by the Council in resolution 15/11, in 2012, OHCHR prepared a progress report (see A/HRC/21/20) containing a preliminary overview of national human rights education initiatives in higher education and in training for teachers and educators, civil servants, law enforcement officials and the military, as reported by 34 Governments and 14 national human rights institutions. 4. In September 2014, the Council reminded States, in resolution 27/12, to prepare and submit their national evaluation reports on the second phase of the World Programme to OHCHR by April 2015, in line with the plan of action. The Council also requested OHCHR to submit to it at its thirtieth session an evaluation report on the implementation of the second phase of the World Programme, based on the national evaluation reports. B. Methodology 5. In February 2015, OHCHR sent notes verbales to States recalling the Council’s reminder to submit their national evaluation reports on the second phase of the programme, together with a guidance note, drawn from the plan of action, to facilitate their preparation. 6. By 1 June 2015, 28 Governments had responded (see annex). Their responses were the primary source of information for this report, supplemented by the information contained in the aforementioned 2012 progress report, as well as material received from States in the context of the consultation that took place on the target sectors, focus areas or thematic human rights issues for the third phase of the World Programme (see A/HRC/24/24) and on the text of the plan of action for the third phase (see A/HRC/27/28). In addition, information in the national reports submitted by States in the context of the universal periodic review was also taken into account, where they highlighted pertinent human rights education activities undertaken during 2010 to 2014. 7. Due to word-limit constraints, all the information that was submitted or reviewed could not be included in the present report. Rather, based on the information available, the report provides an overview of actions undertaken by Governments during the second 3