United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education : Towards a Culture of Peace

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 112b Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, published in 1996.

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Human Rights Education International Decades Peace

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Expresses its satisfaction at the resolution 5.3 adopted by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at its twenty-eighth session, which contains the transdisciplinary project entitled "Towards a culture of peace";

Encourages countries, regional organizations, non-governmental organizations and the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to take all necessary action to ensure education for peace, human rights, democracy, international understanding and tolerance;

Requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-first session on the progress of educational activities in the framework of the transdisciplinary project entitled "Towards a culture of peace".

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