World Programme for Human Rights Education Adoption of the Plan of Action for the Fourth Phase

A/HRC/RES/42/7View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, published in 2019.

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3 versions · 2010–2019

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2019	A/HRC/RES/42/7	World Programme for Human Rights Education adoption of the Plan of Action for the Fourth Phase :	1,018	44%Compare
2014	A/HRC/RES/27/12	World Programme for Human Rights Education adoption of the Plan of Action for the Third Phase :	650	50%Compare
2010	A/HRC/RES/15/11	World Programme for Human Rights Education adoption of the plan of action for the 2nd phase :	601	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

9 subjects

Conferences Evaluation Human Rights Education Information Dissemination Programme Implementation Programmes of Action Report Preparation Technical Cooperation Youth

What’s in this document?

12 operative paragraphs

Takes note with appreciation of the draft plan of action for the fourth phase (2020–2024) of the World Programme for Human Rights Education, and welcomes the efforts of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in preparing the said draft plan of action in consultation with States, relevant intergovernmental organizations, national human rights institutions, civil society and youth;

Adopts the plan of action for the fourth phase (2020–2024) of the World Programme for Human Rights Education;

Calls upon all States and other relevant stakeholders to develop initiatives in accordance with the World Programme and, in particular, to implement, within their capabilities, the plan of action for the fourth phase, and encourages States to submit their midterm progress reports and final national evaluation reports on the implementation of the fourth phase to the Office of the High Commissioner, as specified in the plan of action;

Encourages States and relevant stakeholders, during the fourth phase of the World Programme, to strengthen efforts to advance also the implementation of the three previous phases, including by undertaking their own activities in support of all four phases;

Requests the Office of the High Commissioner, in close cooperation with relevant United Nations agencies, including the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Population Fund, to promote the national implementation of the plan of action, to provide technical assistance when requested and to coordinate related international efforts;

Appeals to relevant organs, bodies and agencies of the United Nations system, and to all other international and regional intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, within their respective mandates, to promote and provide technical assistance when requested for the national implementation of the plan of action;

Encourages all national human rights institutions to assist in the implementation of human rights education programmes, in accordance with the plan of action;

Requests the Office of the High Commissioner, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women to disseminate the plan of action widely among States, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, national human rights institutions and civil society;

Reminds States of the need to prepare and submit their national evaluation reports on the third phase of the World Programme to the Office of the High Commissioner by April 2020;

Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to submit a final report on the implementation of the third phase of the World Programme, based on national evaluation reports, to the Human Rights Council at its forty-fifth session;

Decides to follow up on the implementation of the World Programme in 2022, and requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare, from within existing resources, a midterm progress report on the implementation of the fourth phase of the World Programme and to submit it to the Council at its fifty-first session;

Also decides to convene at its forty-eighth session a high-level panel discussion to mark the tenth anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training on the theme “The tenth anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training: good practices, challenges and the way forward”, decides further that the discussion will be fully accessible to persons with disabilities, and requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare a summary report of the discussion and to submit it to the Human Rights Council by its forty-ninth session.

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