RES/13/15 United Nations declaration on human rights education and training

GE.10-12914

Human Rights Council Thirteenth session Agenda item 5 Human rights bodies and mechanisms

Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council*

13/15 United Nations declaration on human rights education and training

The Human Rights Council,

Recalling Council resolutions 6/10 of 28 September 2007 and 10/28 of 27 March 2009, in which the Council mandated the Advisory Committee to elaborate a draft United Nations declaration on human rights education and training and to submit it to the Council at its thirteenth session,

Welcoming the open and rich debate witnessed during the high-level discussion on the draft declaration, held on 2 March 2010, in accordance with Council decision 12/118 of 1 October 2009,

Welcoming also the submission of the draft declaration by the Advisory Committee contained in its study submitted to the Council (A/HRC/13/41),

1. Decides to establish an open-ended intergovernmental working group with the mandate of negotiating, finalizing and submitting to the Council the draft United Nations declaration on human rights education and training on the basis of the draft submitted by the Advisory Committee;

2. Also decides that the working group shall meet for a maximum of five working days before its sixteenth session;

3. Welcomes the decision of the Platform on Human Rights Education and Training to hold open-ended informal consultations prior to the convening of the working group;

4. Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to provide the working group with the necessary assistance for it to fulfil its

* The resolutions and decisions of the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of the

Council on its thirteenth session (A/HRC/13/56), chap. I.

mandate, including by circulating to all Member States and in all official languages of the United Nations the draft declaration contained in the study of the Advisory Committee;

5. Requests the President of the Council to invite the Rapporteur of the Advisory Committee drafting group on the draft declaration to participate in the meetings of the working group.

42nd meeting 25 March 2010

[Adopted without a vote]