A/HRC/45/24 encouraging students to adopt sustainable lifestyles, including through education on human rights, sustainable development, peace and security. 18. Development of human rights teaching and learning materials continued to take place in various States. In Indonesia, from 2016 to 2019, 363 textbooks, which included human rights topics, were developed for students of all school levels (years 1 to 12). In 2016, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia, in an agreement with the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport, published a worksheet on the rights of refugee children for primary school students, in order to foster understanding, acceptance and inclusion. In Cyprus, since 2017, the Commissioner for Children’s Rights has developed child-friendly posters in five languages (Arabic, English, French, Russian and Turkish) on the Convention on the Rights of the Child and distributed them to all primary schools. 19. Several responding States reported efforts to facilitate networking, information exchange and discussion among human rights educators. In Switzerland, the Réseau d’écoles21 was established to promote the implementation of education for sustainable development, including citizenship and human rights, across cantons. More than 1,800 schools are members of the network, through which they share examples of good practices, pedagogical resources, lesson plans and other materials. In Colombia, the Ministry of National Education, in collaboration with multiple stakeholders, launched Paz a Tu Idea, an online community of practice which contains materials, reference materials and tools on education for peace and human rights from the country’s education community and other partners. The National Agency of Education of Finland coordinated the Associated Schools Network of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, including over 60 schools, to share good practices, resources, methods and tools to promote the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In Italy, to promote in-depth study and research on citizenship education, Parliament, the Ministry of Education, University and Research and regional school offices launched the online platform Cittadinanza e Costituzione [citizenship and constitution] where resources and materials, as well as guidance on innovative education paths, can be found. In 2015, to strengthen knowledge and awareness of child rights, the Ombudsman for Children in Sweden launched a website called Mina Rättigheter [my rights], which is targeted at children, students and teachers and provides resources and lesson plans for teachers; practical tools on how children and students can practise human rights will be added to the website in 2020. In Cyprus, the Cyprus Pedagogical Institute developed tools and resources on citizenship and human rights education, such as lesson plans, websites, videos and papers, for use by teachers and other education personnel. In partnership with the Zurich University of Teacher Education, the National Center for Teacher Professional Development in Georgia developed the multilingual website Living Democracy, which is aimed at promoting the teaching of democracy, citizenship and human rights and provides teaching resources for teachers. In Spain, the National Institute of Technology and Professional Development developed several open educational resource projects to facilitate human rights teaching in the classroom. 3. Training of teachers and other education personnel 20. Many States reported pre-service and in-service teacher training programmes on human rights and/or human rights education methodologies. During the reporting period, Colombia implemented a training programme for nearly 2,000 teachers, to provide them with conceptual and methodological tools to conduct and incorporate citizenship and human rights education into school processes, pedagogy and management. In Sweden, since 2011, the National Agency for Education has conducted training for teachers at all school levels on democratic values, human rights and non-discrimination, including on how to prevent and stop bullying and harassment at school. 21. Some States reported efforts to develop human rights materials for teacher training. In the Niger, the Ministry of Primary Education, Literacy, Promotion of National Languages and Civic Education and the Ministry of Justice have developed several modules and guides; in 2016, they were further improved based on the feedback from a testing phase conducted in Niamey. In Finland, the University of Helsinki coordinated, in collaboration with the Ministry of Justice and the Human Rights Centre, a project for the period 2018–2019 to develop, among other things, a web-based course for teachers in 7

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