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mid-December 2006, 28 governmental bodies had responded to the joint letter; the list of
countries is attached in the annex to this report. In order to facilitate information-sharing on
national initiatives undertaken in connection with the Plan of Action, in November 2006
OHCHR launched a new section of its website. The section contains information on the national
focal points appointed by Governments as well as on existing national plans for human
rights education or relevant excerpts from overall national human rights plans. This is
available on OHCHR’s website at: http://www.ohchr.org/english/issues/education/training/
national-initiatives.htm.
9.
On 11-12 September 2006, OHCHR and UNESCO hosted the first meeting of the
United Nations Inter-Agency Coordinating Committee on Human Rights Education in the
School System (UNIACC), established in accordance with the Plan of Action (paras. 38-40).
The objectives of the Committee include:
− To encourage and support appropriate implementation of human rights education in
the school system at the national level;
− To liaise with all other United Nations initiatives, frameworks and inter-agency
efforts relevant to education/human rights;
− To develop ways to collect and disseminate examples from various contexts and
countries;
− To develop a framework for monitoring and evaluating progress in the
implementation of the Plan of Action; and
− To interact with international and regional financial institutions, as well as bilateral
funding agencies, to explore ways of linking their funding programmes on education
to human rights education programmes.
10.
The meeting gathered representatives from the International Labour Organization,
OHCHR, UNAIDS, the United Nations Development Programme, UNESCO, the United Nations
Population Fund, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the
United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees in the Near East, and the World Bank. The newly-established Committee agreed on
strategies for the short, medium and long term with a view to encourage and support national
implementation of the Plan of Action, focusing on the use of existing United Nations
mechanisms and institutions as entry-points for enhancing cooperation. The Committee
identified three broad areas for support by the United Nations system to the national
implementation of the Plan of Action, namely technical assistance, information-sharing and
resources mobilization. More information on the Committee is available on OHCHR’s website
at: http://www.ohchr.org/english/issues/education/training/UN-inter-agency.htm.
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