Follow-Up to the International Year of Human Rights Learning

A/RES/68/173View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 69b Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, published in 2013.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 2010–2014

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2014	A/RES/68/173	Follow-up to the International Year of Human Rights Learning	795	92%Compare
2012	A/RES/66/173	Follow-up to the International Year of Human Rights Learning	756	84%Compare
2010	A/RES/64/82	Follow-up to the International Year of Human Rights Learning	703	–

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.

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.

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

3 reports · 2011–2015

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2015	A/70/166	Follow-up to the International Year of Human Rights Learning report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/68/173
2013	A/68/207	Follow-up to the International Year of Human Rights Learning report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/66/173
2011	A/66/225	Follow-up to the International Year of Human Rights Learning report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/64/82

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Civil Society Human Rights Advancement Human Rights Education International Years

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms its conviction that every woman, man, youth and child can realize his or her full human potential by, inter alia, learning about the comprehensive framework of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the ability to act on that knowledge in order to ensure the effective realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all;

Encourages Member States to expand on efforts made beyond the International Year of Human Rights Learning and to consider devoting the financial and human resources necessary to further design and implement international, regional, national and local long-term human rights learning programmes of action aimed at broad-based and sustained human rights learning at all levels, in coordination with civil society, the media, the private sector, academia, parliamentarians and regional organizations, including the appropriate specialized agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations system, and, where possible, to designate human rights cities;

Calls upon the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Human Rights Council to support, cooperate and collaborate closely with civil society, the private sector, academia, regional organizations, the media and other relevant stakeholders, as well as with organizations, programmes and funds of the United Nations system, and relevant networks and bodies such as the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, the United Nations Global Compact and the United Nations Office for Partnerships in efforts to develop, in particular, the design of strategies and international, regional, national and local programmes of action aimed at broad-based and sustained human rights learning at all levels;

Welcomes the adoption by the General Assembly of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training,⁵ and stresses the complementarity of human rights learning and the Declaration;

⁵Resolution 66/137.

Encourages civil society organizations worldwide, in particular those working at the community level, to integrate human rights learning into dialogue and consciousness-raising programmes with groups working on education, development, poverty eradication, participation, children, indigenous peoples, gender equality, persons with disabilities, elder persons and migrants, as well as on other relevant political, civil, economic, social and cultural issues of concern;

Encourages relevant actors in civil society, including sociologists, anthropologists, members of academia and of the media and community leaders, to join in further developing the concept of human rights learning as a way to promote the full realization of all human rights and fundamental freedoms for all;

Invites relevant treaty bodies to take human rights learning into account in their interaction with States parties;

Invites the United Nations system, as well as Member States, to give due consideration to human rights education and learning in the emerging post-2015 United Nations development agenda;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its seventieth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution.

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