World Programme for Human Rights Education the Plan of Action for the Fifth Phase

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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 2024.

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1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 1	Human rights mainstreaming, right to development, and research and analysis	108

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 1	Human rights mainstreaming, right to development, and research and analysis	108	—

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

What subjects does this mandate have?

8 subjects

Anniversaries Children Human Rights Education Programme Implementation Programmes of Action Report Preparation Technical Cooperation Youth

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Acknowledges the work of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in preparing the plan of action for the fifth phase of the World Programme for Human Rights Education (2025–2029), in consultation with States, relevant intergovernmental organizations, national human rights institutions, civil society and youth;

Reaffirms the continuation of the World Programme on Human Rights Education and launches its fifth phase, for the period 2025-2029, taking into account the plans of action as guidance documents for States and other relevant stakeholders in crafting human rights education strategies and programmes;

Encourages States and other relevant stakeholders to develop and implement human rights education initiatives, within their capabilities and in line with national needs and priorities, during the fifth phase;

Encourages States to submit on a voluntary basis a midterm progress report and a final national evaluation report on the implementation of the fifth phase to the Office of the High Commissioner, as specified in the plan of action;

Encourages States and relevant stakeholders, during the fifth phase of the World Programme, to continue and further strengthen efforts to advance also the implementation of the four previous 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 on a voluntary basis their national evaluation reports on the fourth phase of the World Programme to the Office of the High Commissioner by April 2025;

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

Decides to follow up on the implementation of the fifth phase of the World Programme in 2027, and requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare, from within existing resources, a midterm progress report, in easy-to-read accessible format, on the implementation of the fifth phase of the World Programme and to submit it to the Human Rights Council at its sixty-sixth session;

Also decides to convene at its sixty-third session a high-level panel discussion to mark the fifteenth anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training on the theme “The fifteenth anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training: good practices, challenges and the way forward”, further decides 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 sixty-fourth session.

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