Human Rights Education and Training

A/HRC/RES/31/21View 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 2016.

What subjects does this mandate have?

10 subjects

Anniversaries Conferences Declarations Education for Peace Electronic Information Resources Human Rights Education Information Dissemination Programmes of Action Teaching Materials Technical Cooperation

What’s in this document?

13 operative paragraphs

Calls upon States to take appropriate measures to ensure the effective implementation of and follow-up to the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training, including by making available the necessary resources and promoting universal respect and understanding thereof;

Encourages States and all other stakeholders to strengthen the implementation of the World Programme for Human Rights Education, including its third phase;

Welcomes the efforts of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in advancing human rights education and training globally, including through the promotion of national implementation of the World Programme for Human Rights Education, methodological and training support, capacity-building and technical assistance, and urges them to step up collaboration with States, upon request, in order to build their capacity for human rights education and training;

Encourages the Office of the High Commissioner, in cooperation with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to support the implementation of 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including Goal 4, target 7 thereof;

Affirms the importance of education, including human rights education and training, as a tool to help to prevent terrorism and violent extremism, as well as racial and religious intolerance, genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity worldwide, and recognizing the catalytic role of education, including human rights education and training, in helping to ensure stability and sustainable peace, human rights, social justice, diversity, gender equality and environmental sustainability;

Underlines the necessity to strengthen international cooperation and coordination in order to advance human rights education and training as a necessary tool for the promotion and protection of human rights;

Appreciates the work done by the Office of the High Commissioner and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to collect and develop educational materials on human rights education and training, including through regional centres, and to provide access to online educational materials, including through the Office’s resource collection on human rights education and training and the Organization’s clearinghouse on global citizenship education;

Encourages the Office of the High Commissioner and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to further collect and provide access to educational materials on human rights education and training, including through the use of online platforms and information and communications technology;

Welcomes the initiative by the Secretary-General on preventing violent extremism which, inter alia, calls for education to include teaching respect for human rights and diversity, fostering critical thinking, promoting media and digital literacy, and developing the behavioural and socioemotional skills that can contribute to peaceful coexistence and tolerance;

Appreciates the work of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization undertaken in cooperation with Member States to promote human rights education and training through the strategy on global citizenship education, in line with the Global Education First Initiative of the Secretary-General and Goal 4, target 7 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;

Recognizes the important role of national human rights institutions in promoting effective policies on human rights education and training, and calls upon them to contribute further to the implementation of human rights education programmes;

Also recognizes the important role of civil society, including non-governmental organizations, in promoting and providing human rights education and training;

Decides to convene at its thirty-third session a high-level panel discussion to mark the fifth anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training, on the theme “The implementation of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training: good practices and challenges”, and requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare a summary report of the high-level panel discussion and to submit it to the Human Rights Council by its thirty-fifth session.

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