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4.
Requests the Secretary-General, within the regular budget of the United Nations, to
mobilize, as appropriate, the United Nations Country Teams in order to promote, within the
framework of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights sixtieth anniversary activities,
education, training and public information activities in the field of human rights;
5.
Also requests the Secretary-General and the Office of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights to submit to the Council, prior to its seventh session, a
joint progress report, from within the regular budget of the United Nations, on public
information activities in the field of human rights, including activities being undertaken
throughout the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, by the
United Nations system, internationally and at the national level, and, particularly, by the field
presences of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
21st meeting
28 September 2007
[Adopted without a vote. See chap. III.]
6/10. United Nations declaration on human rights
education and training
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaims that every individual
and every organ of society, keeping the Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching
and education to promote respect for the rights and freedoms contained in it,
Recalling the high importance attached to human rights education by the Vienna
Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted in June 1993 by the World Conference on
Human Rights, and the great value of the World Programme for Human Rights Education,
Reaffirming that the Human Rights Council shall, inter alia, promote human rights
education and learning,
Believing that enhanced efforts to promote human rights education would represent a major
contribution of the Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming the importance of the World Programme for Human Rights Education,
Mindful and appreciative of the efforts made in this regard by the International Labour
Organization, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the
United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Development Programme and the Office of
the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights as well as by other relevant
stakeholders, including educators and non-governmental organizations,
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