A/RES/56/167
United Nations
Distr.: General
26 February 2002
General Assembly
Fifty-sixth session
Agenda item 119 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/56/583/Add.2)]
56/167. United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education
The General Assembly,
Guided by the fundamental and universal principles enshrined in the Charter of
the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1
Reaffirming article 26 of the Declaration, which states that “education shall be
directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening
of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms”, and recalling the provisions
of other relevant international human rights instruments that reflect the aims of this
article,
Recalling the high importance attached to human rights education by the
World Conference on Human Rights, held in Vienna from 14 to 25 June 1993,
Recalling also 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,
Believing that human rights education constitutes an important vehicle for the
elimination of gender-based discrimination and for ensuring equal opportunities
through the promotion and protection of the human rights of women,
Convinced that every 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 in all societies,
Recognizing that human rights education is essential to
human rights and fundamental freedoms and that carefully
dissemination and information programmes can have a catalytic
regional and international initiatives to promote and protect
prevent human rights violations,
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the realization of
designed training,
effect on national,
human rights and