United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Urges all Governments to promote the development of comprehensive, participatory and sustainable national strategies for human rights education and to establish and strengthen, as a priority in education policies, knowledge of human rights in both its theoretical dimension and its practical application; urges all Governments to contribute further to the implementation of the Plan of Action; requests the High Commissioner to continue to coordinate and harmonize human rights education and information strategies within the UN system, including the implementation of the Plan of Action, in cooperation, inter alia, with the Unesco, and to ensure maximum effectiveness and efficiency in the collection, use, processing, management and distribution of human rights information and educational materials, including through electronic means; urges the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat to continue to utilize UN information centres for the timely dissemination, within their designated areas of activity, of basic information, reference and audio-visual materials on human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the reports of States parties submitted under international human rights instruments, and, to that end, to ensure that the information centres are supplied with adequate quantities of those materials requests the Office of the High Commissioner to continue the implementation of and to expand the "Assisting Communities Together" project and to consider other appropriate ways and means to support human rights education activities, including those undertaken by non-governmental organizations.

Adopted without vote, 88th plenary meeting

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