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primary and secondary school systems, 9/12 of 24 September 2008, in which the Council
established among the human rights voluntary goals the adoption and implementation of
programmes of human rights education in all learning institutions, and 10/3 of 25 March 2009,
on consultation on the focus of the second phase of the World Programme,
Recalling further that the World Programme is structured on an ongoing series of
consecutive phases, intended as a comprehensive process, including formal and informal
education and training, and that Member States should continue the implementation of human
rights education in primary and secondary school systems, while taking the necessary measures
to implement the World Programme according to its new focus,
1.
Takes note of the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
on the consultation on the focus of the second phase of the World Programme for Human Rights
Education (A/HRC/12/36);
2.
Decides to focus the second phase of the World Programme on human rights
education for higher education and on human rights training programmes for teachers and
educators, civil servants, law enforcement officials and military personnel at all levels;
3.
Encourages States that have not yet taken steps to incorporate human rights
education in the primary and secondary school system to do so, in accordance with the Plan of
Action of the first phase of the World Programme;
4.
Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to
prepare, within existing resources, in cooperation with relevant intergovernmental organizations,
in particular the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
and non-governmental actors, consult States on and submit for consideration to the fifteenth
session of the Human Rights Council (September 2010), a plan of action for the second phase of
the World Programme (2010-2014), keeping in mind that it shall be properly structured,
formulated in realistic terms, with an indication of at least minimum action, and including
provisions to support activities undertaken by all actors;
5.
Recommends that the Secretary-General ensure that an adequate component of
United Nations assistance, to be provided at the request of Member States to develop their
national systems of promotion and protection of human rights, is available to support human
rights education;
6.
Reminds Member States of the need to prepare and submit their national evaluation
reports on the first phase of the World Programme to the United Nations Inter-Agency
Coordinating Committee on Human Rights Education in the School System by early 2010;
7.
Requests the Coordinating Committee to submit a final evaluation report of the
implementation of the first phase of the World Programme, based on national evaluation reports,
in cooperation with relevant international, regional and non-governmental organizations, to the
General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session;
8.
Decides to consider this issue at its fifteenth session under the same agenda item.
30th meeting
1 October 2009
[Adopted without a vote.]
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