A/HRC/15/28 (c) Action — taking action to defend and promote human rights. 5. With a view to encouraging human rights education initiatives, Member States have adopted various specific international frameworks for action, such as the World Public Information Campaign on Human Rights (1988-ongoing), focusing on the development and dissemination of human rights information materials, the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education (1995-2004) and its plan of action, encouraging the elaboration and implementation of comprehensive, effective and sustainable strategies for human rights education at the national level, the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and NonViolence for the Children of the World (2001-2010), the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014), the International Year for Human Rights Learning (2008-2009) as well as the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures (2010). 2 6. The Platform for Human Rights Education and Training, an informal cross-regional grouping of States within the framework of the Human Rights Council which supports related international activities, is promoting the development of a United Nations declaration on human rights education and training. A first draft, prepared by the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee, was presented to the Council in March 2010. In its resolution 13/15 of 25 March 2010, the Council decided to establish an open-ended intergovernmental working group with the mandate of negotiating, finalizing and submitting to the Council the draft declaration by March 2011. 7. On 10 December 2004, upon the recommendation of the Commission on Human Rights and the Economic and Social Council, the General Assembly proclaimed the World Programme for Human Rights Education scheduled to begin on 1 January 2005, in order to advance the implementation of human rights education programmes in all sectors. 3 The World Programme is structured in consecutive phases, in order to further focus national human rights education efforts on specific sectors/issues. B. Objectives of the World Programme for Human Rights Education 8. The objectives of the World Programme for Human Rights Education are: (a) To promote the development of a culture of human rights; (b) To promote a common understanding, based on international instruments, of basic principles and methodologies for human rights education; (c) To ensure a focus on human rights education at the national, regional and international levels; (d) To provide a common collective framework for action by all relevant actors; (e) To enhance partnership and cooperation at all levels; (f) To survey, evaluate and support existing human rights education programmes, to highlight successful practices, and to provide an incentive to continue and/or expand them and to develop new ones. 2 3 General Assembly resolution 62/90. General Assembly resolution 59/113 A. 5