RES/10/3 World Programme for Human Rights Education
Document Type: Final Resolution
Date: 2009 Mar
Session: 10th Regular Session (2009 Mar)
Agenda Item:
Topic: International Human Rights System
- Main sponsors4
- Co-sponsors49
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Angola
Argentina
Armenia
Austria
Bahrain
Belgium
Bolivia, Plurinational State of
Brazil
Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Chile
Colombia
Congo
Côte d'Ivoire
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Djibouti
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Japan
Korea, Republic of
Mauritania
Mexico
Moldova, Republic of
Nicaragua
Nigeria
Panama
Peru
Portugal
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
Syrian Arab Republic
Thailand
Turkey
Ukraine
Uruguay
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Human Rights Council
Tenth Session
Resolution 10/3. World Programme for Human Rights Education
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling General Assembly resolutions 43/128 of 8 December 1988, in which the Assembly launched the World Public Information Campaign on Human Rights, 59/113 A of 10 December 2004, 59/113 B of 14 July 2005 and 60/251 of 15 March 2006, in which the Assembly decided, inter alia, that the Human Rights Council would promote human rights education and learning, as well as Commission on Human Rights resolution 2005/61 of 20 April 2005 and Subcommission for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights resolution 2006/19 of 24 August 2006, concerning the World Programme for Human Rights Education, structured in consecutive phases, and the Plan of Action for its first phase (2005-2007),
Recalling also Council resolutions 6/9 of 28 September 2007 on the development of public information activities in the field of human rights and 6/24 of 28 September 2007, in which the Council extended to December 2009 the first phase of the World Programme focusing on the primary and secondary school systems,
Noting paragraphs 49 to 51 of the Plan of Action of the first phase of the World Programme, according to which, at the conclusion of the first phase, Member States are expected to prepare their national evaluation reports, taking into consideration progress made in a number of areas, such as legal frameworks and policies, curricula, teaching and learning processes and tools, revision of textbooks, teacher training and improvement of the school environment, and to provide their final national evaluation reports to the United Nations Inter-Agency Coordinating Committee on Human Rights Education in the School System through the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,
1. Takes note of the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the World Programme for Human Rights Education (A/HRC/9/4);
2. Requests the High Commissioner to consult with States Members of the United Nations, national human rights institutions and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations on the possible focus, in terms of target sector or thematic area, of the second phase of the World Programme to begin on 1 January 2010, and to submit a report on those consultations to the Council at its twelfth session;
3. Encourages States Members of the United Nations to start taking steps for the preparation of their national evaluation reports on the first phase, with the assistance of international and regional organizations, as well as civil society actors, to be provided to the United Nations Inter-Agency Coordinating Committee on Human Rights Education in the School System early in 2010;
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4. Decides to consider this issue at its twelfth session under the same agenda item.
41st meeting 25 March 2009
[Adopted without a vote.]
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