A/HRC/12/36 page 5 7. The following NGOs replied: Amnesty International - International Secretariat, United Kingdom; Amnesty International Mongolia; Buraku Liberation League, Japan; Cercle de recherche sur les droits et les devoirs de la personne humaine, Cameroon; Cercle d’initiative commune pour la recherche, l’environnement et la qualité, Cameroon; Council of Human Rights of Deprived Communities of Sri Lanka; Egyptian Association for Community Participation Enhancement; Europe-Third World Centre, Switzerland; Human Rights Education Associates, United States of America; International Association of Schools of Social Work, Switzerland; International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism - Japan Committee, Japan; Ius Primi Viri, Italy; Population and Community Development Association, Thailand; Soka Gakkai International, Japan; Solidarity for Social Equality (Human Rights Centre), India; Worldwide Organization for Women, United States of America; and individual researchers from Jordan, Kenya, and Turkey. II. RESPONSES FROM GOVERNMENTS 8. The Government of Armenia proposed specific target groups for the second phase as follows: secondary school directors and teachers, especially social science, law or human rights teachers; university and college teachers; representatives of local self-governing bodies, especially trusteeship and guardianship bodies; representatives of the justice system, including judges and lawyers; representatives of law enforcement bodies, including police, especially those working with minors, and public prosecutors’ offices; and media representatives. Themes tackled in the second phase could include all human rights and fundamental freedoms, and labour rights with emphasis to migration issues. The second phase should last from 2010 to 2014. 9. The Government of Cambodia expressed the commitment of its Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport to the second phase. The Ministry will implement further teacher training in human rights and related civil codes for teachers working in and out of the educational system as the Ministry’s staff, through a technical team preparing a workplan, developing training materials as well as providing training in this framework. 10. The Government of Costa Rica stated that as education in sexual and reproductive rights of young persons is one of the tasks that the Costa Rican State still has to fulfil, the Public Education Ministry should play a larger role in this area. States should take up the responsibility of providing information on sexual and reproductive rights as well as access to health services. The explicit commitment of Costa Rica to sexual and reproductive rights of the young population via the adoption of this topic in the second phase could contribute to meeting this challenge. The response further provided a detailed account of recent surveys among the Costa Rican population and an overview of specific education programmes of the Public Education Ministry. 11. According to the Government of Cyprus, in the World Programme’s second phase the target sector should be migrant and disabled children at school. Cyprus suggested as a thematic area the right of migrant and disabled children to have equal educational opportunities to all other schoolchildren. 12. The Government of Germany highlighted the following possible target groups: teachers in primary and secondary schools (human rights education included in university studies as well as

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