A/HRC/15/28
(d)
National human rights institutions, such as ombudsmen and human rights
commissions;
(e)
Relevant institutions of higher education which participate in the UNITWIN
Networks and UNESCO Chairs programme; 22
(f)
National college and university networks;
(g)
National Commissions for UNESCO;
(h)
Education research institutes;
(i)
National and local human rights training and resource centres or institutes,
including those within higher education institutions;
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D.
(j)
Training colleges, where they exist, for higher education teaching personnel;
(k)
Non-governmental organizations.
Other stakeholders to be involved would include:
(a)
The media;
(b)
Religious institutions;
(c)
Community leaders and local community institutions;
(d)
Indigenous peoples and minorities;
(e)
The corporate sector.
Action promoting human rights training for civil servants, law
enforcement officials and the military
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Section D of the present plan of action focuses on human rights training for a broad
range of adult professionals who have specific responsibility, as state actors, to respect,
protect and fulfil the human rights of those under their jurisdiction. They include:
(a)
Civil servants 23 who, depending on national laws and governmental
structures, may include officials and policymakers from government ministries and
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23
UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs projects deal with training and research activities and cover all major
fields of knowledge within UNESCO competence such as education, human rights, cultural
development, environment, etc. The principal beneficiaries of this programme are institutions of
higher learning in developing countries and countries in transition.
There is no internationally-agreed definition of what constitutes “civil service” (see World Bank
article “Civil Service Law & Employment Regimes”, 26 April 2001, available at
http://www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/civilservice/civilservicelaw.htm). The concept and definition
of “civil service” and “civil servant” differs widely from country to country, in accordance with
national laws and governmental structures. See for instance the International Labour Organization
(ILO) Thesaurus, 6th edition, 2008 (available at http://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ILOThesaurus/english/index.htm): “civil service” is referred to as “the permanent, professional branches
of state administration, excluding military and judicial branches and elected politicians” and “civil
servant” as “public administration employee”. In current usage, the term most commonly refers to
officials within civilian central government or subnational government (see the World Bank as cited
above). Research shows that they may include officials from government ministries, departments,
executive agencies, diplomatic service, local government and city councils or municipalities, fiscal
and economic agencies, revenue collection agencies; in some cases, also teachers employed in public
education systems and employees of public hospitals (non-exhaustive list).
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