International Year of Human Rights Learning

A/RES/63/173View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 64b Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, published in 2009.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 2008–2009

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2009	A/RES/63/173	International Year of Human Rights Learning	657	29%Compare
2008	A/RES/62/171	International Year of Human Rights Learning	699	–

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2009

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2009	A/64/293	International Year of Human Rights Learning report		A/RES/62/171

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Civil Society Human Rights Advancement Human Rights Education International Years Private Sector Regional Organizations Specialized Agencies

What’s in this document?

4 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms its conviction that every woman, man, youth and child can realize his or her full human potential through learning about all human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the ability to act on that knowledge in order to ensure the effective realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all;

Urges Member States to develop throughout the International Year of Human Rights Learning and beyond, in coordination with civil society, the private sector, academia and parliamentarians and regional organizations, including the appropriate specialized agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations system, international strategies and/or regional, national and local programmes of action aimed at broad-based and sustained human rights learning at all levels, bearing in mind the complementary efforts undertaken within the framework of the World Programme for Human Rights Education;2

Calls upon the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Human Rights Council to support, cooperate and collaborate with civil society, the private sector, academia, regional organizations and other relevant stakeholders, as well as with organizations, programmes and funds of the United Nations system, in efforts to develop, in particular, the design of international strategies and/or regional, national and local programmes of action aimed at broad-based and sustained human rights learning for all, including seminars and workshops for community leaders, keeping in mind a long-term multi-year process involving several countries in all regions;

Requests the Secretary-General to include the implementation of the present resolution in the report to the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session, in accordance with its resolution 62/171.

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