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Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment6 and paragraphs 78 to 82 of the Vienna Declaration and
Programme of Action adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993,7 which
reflect the aims of the aforementioned article,
Recalling the relevant resolutions adopted by the General Assembly and the Commission on Human
Rights concerning the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education, 1995-2004, public information
activities in the field of human rights, including the World Public Information Campaign on Human
Rights, the project of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization entitled
"Towards a culture of peace", the implementation of and follow-up to the Vienna Declaration and
Programme of Action and the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights,
Believing that the World Public Information Campaign on Human Rights is a valuable complement
to the activities of the United Nations aimed at the further promotion and protection of human rights, and
recalling the importance attached by the World Conference on Human Rights to human rights education
and information,
Convinced that each woman, man and child, in order to realize their full human potential, must be
made aware of all their human rights and fundamental freedoms,
Convinced also that human rights education should involve more than the provision of information
and should constitute a comprehensive lifelong process by which people at all levels of development and
in all societies learn respect for the dignity of others and the means and methods of ensuring that respect,
Recognizing that human rights education and information are essential to the realization of human
rights and fundamental freedoms and that carefully designed programmes of training, dissemination and
information can have a catalytic effect on national, regional and international initiatives to promote and
protect human rights and prevent human rights violations,
Convinced that human rights education and information contribute to a concept of development
consistent with the dignity of women and men of all ages that takes into account particularly vulnerable
segments of society such as children, youth, older persons, indigenous people, minorities, rural and urban
poor, migrant workers, refugees, persons with the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome infection and disabled persons,
Taking into account the efforts to promote human rights education made by educators and nongovernmental organizations in all parts of the world, as well as by intergovernmental organizations,
including the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the International Labour Organization and the United
Nations Children’s Fund,
6
Resolution 39/46, annex.
7
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
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