A/HRC/16/2
Part One
Resolutions and decisions
I. Resolutions adopted by the Human Rights Council at its
sixteenth session
16/1
United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training
The Human Rights Council,
Acknowledging the work of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee in
preparing a draft declaration on human rights education and training as requested by the
Human Rights Council in its resolution 6/10 of 28 September 2007,
Recalling Council resolution 13/15 of 25 March 2010, in which it established an
open-ended intergovernmental working group with the mandate of negotiating, finalizing
and submitting to the Council the draft United Nations declaration on human rights
education and training on the basis of the draft submitted by the Advisory Committee,
Welcoming the report of the Open-ended Working Group on the draft United
Nations declaration on human rights education and training (A/HRC/WG.9/1/3) and the
decision to transmit the draft United Nations declaration on human rights education and
training to the Council for its consideration,
1.
Adopts the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and
Training as contained in the annex to the present resolution;
2.
Recommends that the General Assembly, in accordance with paragraph 5 (c)
of its resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, adopt the following draft resolution:
“The General Assembly,
Welcoming the adoption by the Human Rights Council, through its resolution
16/1 of 23 March 2011, of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights
Education and Training,
1.
Adopts the United Nations declaration on human rights education and
training as contained in the annex to the present resolution;
2.
Invites Governments, agencies and organizations of the United
Nations system and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to
intensify their efforts to disseminate the Declaration and to promote universal
respect and understanding thereof, and requests the Secretary-General to include the
text of the Declaration in the next edition of Human Rights: A Compilation of
International Instruments”.
44th meeting
23 March 2011
[Adopted without a vote.]
GE.11-17059
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