A/HRC/36/24 Foreign Affairs, an e-learning course for teachers on global education, with a specific module devoted to participation and human rights issues. In Israel, the Ministry of Education implemented a number of training programmes for teachers aimed at increasing knowledge of human rights, equality, tolerance and coexistence among students, as well as how to deal with racism and effectively use human rights education materials. Germany reported that most of the Länder have taken special measures to integrate human rights education into in-service training for teachers. Higher education institutions also received federal support to develop innovative concepts for teacher training courses and to improve their quality, including by integrating issues related to diversity and inclusive education in the context of its growing refugee population. Uruguay implemented various projects to promote human rights education for teachers and educators; in 2016, education authorities approved a document entitled “Basics and orientation of the 2017 proposal”, which concerns training for all teachers and educators in the country and includes human rights as a main axis, together with diversity and sexual education, for all related programming. 17. Respondents highlighted specific initiatives for teachers and educators. The Defensor del Pueblo of Ecuador developed a human rights teacher-training programme to equip teachers with the relevant methodological skills, as well as the capacity to identify human rights vulnerabilities through their work and refer related cases to the Defensor. Around 140 teachers from different regions participated in this two-phase programme, which consisted of a face-to-face course followed by a distance-learning module to reinforce learning through reflection and application. Bosnia and Herzegovina, through its network of educators known as CIVITAS, trained 37,170 teachers to teach democracy and human rights using interactive methodology. The Human Rights Commission of Uganda highlighted its training for teachers on human rights, children’s rights, the right to education and the human rights of groups in vulnerable situations. Serbia noted that teacher training includes subjects such as equality and respect for diversity and that a newly established master’s programme at the Universities of Belgrade and Kragujevac on education policy includes such topics. It also noted a number of human rights training programmes for teachers, including the project on education for children’s rights implemented by the Centre for Children’s Rights in Užice that trains teachers on children’s rights and related topics. The National Human Rights Commission of Korea conducted a number of eight-day human rights training programmes for teachers and educators, whose graduates formed a pool of human rights trainers. It also held a workshop for teachers, educators, textbook authors and local government officials on developing human rights-friendly textbooks, based on research it had conducted in 2015 on how discrimination and human rights violations were portrayed in school textbooks. Monaco reported that its teachers were trained in France, where human rights education modules were available. Mexico highlighted a wealth of human rights education activities for school personnel, including, in 2015, training of more than 160,000 teaching, administrative and managerial staff of the Secretaría de Educación Pública on issues such as gender equality, gender violence, discrimination and sexual harassment and human rights. In the context of the professional development programme for teachers, in 2015-2016 more than 60,000 teachers and other school personnel, including inspectors and supervisors, participated in training programmes on gender equality, human rights, intercultural education and eradication of violence. The Programa nacional de convivencia escolar, implemented in the context of the national policy for schools free from bullying, promoted human rights training for school personnel and the development of related material. In Argentina, at its National Institute for Teacher Training, the Ministry of Education and Sports created a new advanced specialization in education and human rights for teachers at all education levels, as a joint project with the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights. 18. Many respondents described action taken to produce and disseminate resources and materials to support teacher training and professional development. The Danish Institute for Human Rights highlighted its collaboration with teacher-training colleges to develop an elective course on teaching human rights, so far implemented in two colleges. In the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Equality and Human Rights Commission produced an education resource for secondary schools entitled “Equal rights, equal respect”, which consists of lesson plans, videos and other training resources for teachers. Serbia worked with UNICEF to develop and translate a kit of 14 professional 6