A/HRC/39/35 57. According to the States Platform, the implementation of human rights education and training was crucial for the full realization of all human rights and played a key role in building inclusive societies, strengthening social cohesion and achieving a sustainable future. Participants emphasized the importance of building on good practices and lessons learned during the previous phases of the World Programme, and of placing its fourth phase in the context of other current relevant initiatives, such as the UNESCO-led initiatives on global citizenship education and target 4.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals. 58. Several participants discussed the importance of empowering youth, particularly girls, to become active citizens, to be able to tackle global challenges and contribute to building inclusive, just, peaceful and resilient societies. They emphasized that young people were critical agents of change and had a crucial role to play in peacebuilding. Other participants suggested that the general public, health professionals, the private sector and businesses were possible target sectors. In the discussion, participants also focused on cultural rights and the need to root human rights education within local cultural contexts. VI. Conclusions 59. The views submitted by States, national human rights institutions and other stakeholders on the target sectors, focus areas or thematic human rights issues for the fourth phase of the World Programme reflected a diversity of approaches and priorities often determined by specific local, national and regional contexts. 60. Several respondents stressed that, during the fourth phase, all stakeholders should continue to implement human rights education programmes in the sectors covered by the three previous phases of the World Programme, namely, the formal education system (primary, secondary, higher education and vocational training), civil servants, law enforcement officials and the military, and media professionals and journalists. In their submissions, respondents often proposed these as target sectors for the fourth phase. Respondents also highlighted the importance during the fourth phase of building on documented good practices and lessons learned from the previous phases; to that end, the exchange of experiences should be facilitated. 61. Another overall consideration shared by many respondents was the importance of ensuring that the fourth phase of the World Programme was aligned with and contributed to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in general, and to the achievement of target 4.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals in particular. With regard to that target, some respondents highlighted the strategic importance of cooperation and coordination between OHCHR, UNESCO and United Nations country teams. 62. The majority of respondents indicated youth as a priority for the fourth phase, for a variety of reasons. For example, one respondent pointed out that addressing young people was important because youth was a crucial period of personal development, when the individual develops values and beliefs and begins to experience what citizenship entails. Another respondent highlighted the fact that, according to United Nations data, there were some 1.8 billion young people in the world today, the largest youth population ever, and that more than a third of the 169 targets of the Sustainable Development Goals drew attention to the role of young people and the importance of their empowerment, participation and well-being. Various respondents highlighted the role played by young people as agents of change and a driving force for human rights, and their capacity to mobilize their peers, including those belonging to marginalized and other groups and individuals in vulnerable situations. 63. The emphasis that respondents placed on engaging with groups and individuals in vulnerable situations — migrants, refugees and displaced persons, indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, religious minorities, persons deprived of their liberty, sexual minorities, the extreme poor, persons living in emergency housing, slums or microsettlements or in geographically remote areas, and out-of-school children — in accordance with the objective of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development of “leaving no one behind” was noteworthy. Respondents explained that 12