Teaching in Schools of the Purposes and Principles of the Charter of the United Nations and the Structure and Activities of the United Nations and the Specialized Agencies, with Particular Reference to Human Rights

A/RES/2445(XXIII)View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1969.

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Requests States Members of the United Nations and members of the specialized agencies and of the International Atomic Energy Agency to take steps, as appropriate and according to the scholastic system of each State, to introduce or encourage:

The regular study of the United Nations and the specialized agencies and of the principles proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in -88 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Hague other declarations on human rights, in the training of teaching staff for primary and secondary schools;

Co1wffltions 011d Declaratioiis 1899-1907 (New York, Oxford University Press, 1918).

8T League of Nations, Treaty Series, vol. XCIV (1929), No. 2138.

as United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75 (1950), Nos. 970-973. Re10Jutiou1 adopted on the reporta of the Third Committee SI ~ b) Progressive instruction on the subject in question in the curricula of primary and secondary schools, inviting teachers to seize the opportunities, provided by teaching, of drawing the attention of their pupils to the increasing role of the United Nations system in peaceful co-operation among nations and in joint efforts to promote social justice and economic and social progress in the world ;

Fti, ther requests States Members of the United Nations and members of the specialized agencies and of the International Atomic Energy Agency to draw the attention of the competent authorities in private scholastic institutions to the present resolution and to invite them to make the necessary efforts for the achievement of the aims envisaged in paragraph 1 above ;

Requests the United Nations Educational. Scientific and Cultural Organization to continue and to encourage the study of appropriate ways and means of promoting the achievement of the .aims envisaged in the present resolution ;

Further requests the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the other specialized agencies concerned and th,: United Nations Development Programme to provide assistance to Member States, particularly those which are developing countries, with a view to enabling them to achieve the objectives envisaged in paragraph 1 above.

19 December 1968.

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