A/HRC/21/20
Spanish) that provide, among other things, information on national initiatives related to
human rights education and the text of national plans and strategies.
60.
OHCHR developed and disseminated human rights training materials and
methodologies based on good practice,10 including the 2011 OHCHR/Equitas handbook
Evaluating Human Rights Training Activities: A Handbook for Human Rights Educators
and a forthcoming OHCHR/UNESCO self-assessment guide for Governments concerning
human rights education in the school system. OHCHR is updating its 1999 publication The
Right to Human Rights Education, in which it compiled provisions on human rights
education adopted by Governments in the context of various intergovernmental
mechanisms, to serve as an advocacy tool. OHCHR is also producing, together with two
non-governmental organizations, A Path to Dignity: The Power of Human Rights
Education, a film documenting the positive impact of human rights education on people’s
lives. As at May 2012, the film was at the post-production phase; its launch is expected in
September 2012.
61.
OHCHR manages a publicly accessible Resource Collection on Human Rights
Education and Training, a section of the OHCHR Library comprising more than 3,100
materials from around the world. The OHCHR online Database on Human Rights
Education and Training provides information on around 300 regularly updated training
programmes worldwide and more than 1,100 training and education institutions.11 OHCHR
maintained an educational focus on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the Office
hosts a collection of more than 350 related items (printed, audiovisual and commemorative
materials) and a web page containing various resources, including 384 translations into
national and local languages and dialects.
3.
Supporting national capacity and civil society initiatives
62.
OHCHR headquarters and field presences regularly support national capacity for
human rights education and training through the provision of methodological and expert
advice, in addition to the organization of training courses, workshops and other events on a
broad variety of human rights topics and for many audiences. Details on OHCHR education
activities are available in OHCHR Report 2011.12
63.
Examples of international activities include the Human Rights Orientation
Programme for Diplomats, implemented jointly with the United Nations Institute for
Training and Research in Geneva and New York, to enhance Government officials’
understanding of the United Nations human rights protection system; workshops for
educators belonging to governmental and non-governmental organizations on evaluation of
human rights training, co-organized with Equitas; cooperation with the European Agency
for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member
States of the European Union in developing human rights training materials for European
Union border guards; and efforts to strengthen national capacity for human rights training
of military, police and other staff deployed to peace missions.
64.
OHCHR regularly responds to human rights education queries from Government
and civil society entities and provides methodological advice, reference services and other
guidance. OHCHR grants, publications and the participation of specialized OHCHR staff
have supported international and regional human rights education activities organized by
other actors.
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Available from www.ohchr.org/EN/PublicationsResources/Pages/TrainingEducation.aspx.
See http://hre.ohchr.org/hret/intro.aspx.
Available from
www2.ohchr.org/english/ohchrreport2011/web_version/ohchr_report2011_web/index.html.
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