A/HRC/15/28 (v) Establishing policies and practices for the recruitment, appraisal, compensation, discipline and promotion of teaching personnel which respect the human rights principles of equality, non-discrimination, respect, dignity, fairness and transparency; (vi) Adopting policies prohibiting sexual discrimination and harassment including on the basis of pregnancy or maternity. Reviewing recruitment, hiring, training and promotion policies to remove gender bias; (vii) Developing policies to ensure that higher education is made equally accessible to all, on the basis of capacity, 17 ensuring access for vulnerable groups including persons with disabilities 18 and avoiding discrimination; 19 (viii) Making human rights training a criterion for state licensing or certification for relevant professions. (b) Ensuring coherence, links and synergies with related policies: (i) Integrating human rights education in national sectoral plans for higher education; in national plans for Education for All (EFA); in national policy frameworks as part of the Decade on Education for Sustainable Development (20052014); and in inclusive education policies; (ii) Including human rights education in national human rights plans; in national action plans against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance; in national poverty reduction strategies; and in other development frameworks. (c) Adopting a comprehensive human rights training policy for teaching personnel including: (i) The training of trainers, pre-service and in-service training of teaching personnel; (ii) Information on the rights, responsibilities and participation of students and teaching personnel in all pre- and in-service teacher-training policies and programmes; (iii) Recognizing, accrediting and supporting non-governmental organizations and other sectors of civil society carrying out training activities in human rights education; (iv) Considering human rights education as a criterion for the qualification, accreditation and career development of educational staff and the accreditation of training activities of non-governmental organizations; (v) Developing criteria and standards to evaluate human rights training programmes and their implementation. (d) 17 18 19 Fulfilling international obligations on human rights education: Art. 13 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; art. 28 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Art. 9 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. For instance, different standards of treatment being applied to non-citizens on grounds of race, colour, descent, and national or ethnic origin – see Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, general recommendation no. 30 (2004) on discrimination against non-citizens, para. 31. 11