RES/27/12 World Programme for Human Rights Education: adoption of the plan of action for the third phase

GE.A/HRC/27/28. 4-17703 (E)

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Human Rights Council Twenty-seventh session

Agenda item 3

Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,

political, economic, social and cultural rights,

including the right to development

Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council

27/12

World Programme for Human Rights Education: adoption of the plan

of action for the third phase

The Human Rights Council,

Guided by the principles and purposes of the Charter of the United Nations,

Reaffirming that States are duty-bound, in accordance with the Universal

Declaration of Human Rights and as stipulated in the International Covenant on Economic,

Social and Cultural Rights and in other international human rights instruments, to ensure

that education and training are aimed at strengthening the respect of human rights and

fundamental freedoms,

Recalling General Assembly resolution 43/128 of 8 December 1988, by which the

Assembly launched the World Public Information Campaign on Human Rights, resolution

49/184 of 23 December 1994, in which the Assembly proclaimed the United Nations

Decade for Human Rights Education, resolutions 59/113 A of 10 December 2004 and

59/113 B of 14 July 2005, in which the Assembly proclaimed the World Programme for

Human Rights Education and adopted the plan of action for its first phase, and resolution

60/251 of 15 March 2006, in which the Assembly decided, inter alia, that the Human Rights

Council should promote human rights education and learning,

Recalling also Human Rights Council resolutions on the World Programme for

Human Rights Education, the most recent being resolution 24/15 of 27 September 2013,

Recalling further that the World Programme is an ongoing initiative, structured in

consecutive phases, to advance the implementation of human rights education programmes

in all sectors, and that States should continue the implementation of previous phases while

taking the necessary measures to implement the ongoing phase,

Reaffirming the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and

Training, adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 66/137 on 19 December 2011,

United Nations

A/HRC/RES/27/12

1. Takes note with appreciation of the draft plan of action for the third phase

(2015–2019) of the World Programme for Human Rights Education,1 prepared by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in consultation with

States, relevant intergovernmental organizations, national human rights institutions and

civil society;

2. Adopts the plan of action for the third phase (2015–2019) of the World Programme for Human Rights Education;

3. Encourages all States and, where appropriate, 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 third phase;

4. Requests the Office of the High Commissioner, in close cooperation with the

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to promote the national

implementation of the plan of action, as appropriate, to provide technical assistance when

requested, and to coordinate related international efforts;

5. Appeals to relevant organs, bodies and agencies of the United Nations

system, as well as 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;

6. Calls upon all existing national human rights institutions to assist in the

implementation of human rights education programmes, in accordance with the plan of

action;

7. Requests the Office of the High Commissioner and the United Nations

Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to disseminate the plan of action widely

among States, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, national human

rights institutions and civil society;

8. Reminds States of the need to prepare and submit their national evaluation

reports on the second phase of the World Programme to the Office of the High

Commissioner by April 2015;

9. Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to submit an evaluation report

on the implementation of the second phase of the World Programme, based on national

evaluation reports, to the Human Rights Council at its thirtieth session;

10. Decides to follow up on the implementation of the World Programme in

2017, and requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare, from within existing

resources, a midterm progress report on the implementation of the third phase of the World

Programme and to submit it to the Council at its thirty-sixth session.

39th meeting

25 September 2014

[Adopted without a vote.]