A/HRC/RES/54/7
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
12 October 2023
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-fourth session
11 September–13 October 2023
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
on 11 October 2023
54/7.
World Programme for Human Rights Education
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming that, according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and as
stipulated in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the
Convention on the Rights of the Child 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 previous Human Rights Council resolutions on the World Programme, the
most recent being resolution 51/2 of 6 October 2022,
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, in its third phase,
on the implementation of the first two phases and on promoting human rights training for
media professionals and journalists, and in its fourth phase, on youth, and aligning that phase
with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, specifically target 4.7 of the Sustainable
Development Goals, while strengthening all previous phases of the World Programme,
GE.23-19769(E)