Human Rights Education

A/RES/57/206View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 109b Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, published in 2003.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 2002–2003

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2003	A/RES/57/206	Human rights education	373	83%Compare
2002	A/RES/56/147	Human rights education	355	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

9 subjects

Development Strategies Human Rights Education Information Dissemination Intergovernmental Organizations International Decades International Obligations Non-Governmental Organizations Programmes of Action Training Programmes

What’s in this document?

5 operative paragraphs

Invites all Governments to reaffirm their commitments and obligations to develop national strategies for human rights education which are comprehensive, participatory and effective and which can be embodied in a national plan of action for human rights education as part of their national development plans;

Invites the United Nations, intergovernmental organizations, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and other relevant intergovernmental organizations to adopt a system-wide approach to the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education, 1995–2004;

Invites relevant regional human rights organizations, agencies and networks to develop human rights education programmes and human rights training programmes and strategies for wider distribution of material on human rights education in all possible languages;

Recognizes the role that non-governmental organizations play in developing and implementing strategies to assist Governments to integrate human rights education into all levels of education for children, youth and adults;

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

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