A/HRC/RES/42/7
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
4 October 2019
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-second session
9–27 September 2019
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 26 September 2019
42/7.
World Programme for Human Rights Education: adoption of the plan
of action for the fourth phase
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming that, in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and
as stipulated in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and in
other international human rights instruments, States are duty-bound to ensure that education
is aimed at strengthening respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 59/113 A of 10 December 2004, in which the
Assembly proclaimed the World Programme for Human Rights Education, and resolution
60/251 of 15 March 2006, in which the Assembly decided, inter alia, that the Human Rights
Council should promote human rights education and learning,
Reaffirming the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and
Training, adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 66/137 of 19 December 2011,
Recalling its resolutions on the World Programme for Human Rights Education,
Recalling also that the World Programme is an ongoing initiative, structured in
consecutive phases, to advance the implementation of human rights education programmes
in all sectors, and that States should continue the implementation of previous phases while
taking the measures necessary to implement the current phase,
Recognizing that the World Programme focused in its first phase on the integration of
human rights education into the primary and secondary school systems, in its second phase
on human rights education in higher education and human rights training for teachers and
educators, civil servants, law enforcement officials and military personnel, and in its third
phase on furthering the implementation of the first two phases and on promoting human rights
training for media professionals and journalists,
Recalling Human Rights Council resolution 39/3 of 27 September 2018, in which the
Council decided to make youth the focus group of the fourth phase of the World Programme
and to align the fourth phase with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and
specifically with target 4.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals, and requested the Office
of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to prepare a plan of action for
the fourth phase,
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