A/HRC/RES/15/11
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
6 October 2010
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifteenth session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council*
15/11
World Programme for Human Rights Education: adoption of
the plan of action for the second phase
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming that States are duty-bound, as stipulated in the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and
in other international human rights instruments, to ensure that education is aimed at
strengthening the respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms,
Recalling General Assembly resolutions 43/128 of 8 December 1988, by which the
Assembly launched the World Public Information Campaign on Human Rights, 59/113 A
of 10 December 2004, 59/113 B of 14 July 2005 and 60/251 of 15 March 2006, in which
the Assembly decided, inter alia, that the Council should promote human rights education
and learning, Commission on Human Rights resolution 2005/61 of 20 April 2005 and
Subcommission for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights resolution 2006/19 of
24 August 2006 on the World Programme for Human Rights Education, structured in
consecutive phases,
Recalling also Council resolutions 6/9 and 6/24 of 28 September 2007, 9/12 of 24
September 2008, 10/3 of 25 March 2009 and 12/4 of 1 October 2009,
Recalling further that the World Programme is structured on an ongoing series of
consecutive phases, intended as a comprehensive process, including formal and informal
education and training, and that, in accordance with the World Programme, Member States
should continue the implementation of human rights education in primary and secondary
school systems, while taking the necessary measures to implement the World Programme
according to its new focus on human rights education for higher education and on human
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GE.10-16647
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
the Council on its fifteenth session (A/HRC/15/60), chap. I.