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World Programme for Human Rights Education

A/HRC/RES/12/4No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 3Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, published in 2009.

What other versions does this mandate have?

11 versions · 2005–2023
This is an older version — the most recent is A/HRC/RES/54/7
  • 2023A/HRC/RES/54/7World Programme for Human Rights EducationLatestCompare with previous version
  • 2022A/HRC/RES/51/2World Programme for Human Rights EducationCompare with previous version
  • 2018A/HRC/RES/39/3World Programme for Human Rights EducationCompare with previous version
  • 2017A/HRC/RES/36/12World Programme for Human Rights EducationCompare with previous version
  • 2013A/HRC/RES/24/15World Programme for Human Rights EducationCompare with previous version

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

What subjects does this mandate have?

15 topics
Civil ServantsConsultationsCooperation Between OrganizationsEducational AssistanceHigher EducationHuman Rights EducationLaw Enforcement OfficialsMilitary PersonnelPrimary EducationProgramme EvaluationProgramme ImplementationProgrammes of ActionSecondary EducationTeacher TrainingTraining Programmes

What does this mandate say?

8 operative paragraphs
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.

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