United Nations
A/RES/68/173
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 January 2014
Sixty-eighth session
Agenda item 69 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2013
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/68/456/Add.2)]
68/173. Follow-up to the International Year of Human Rights
Learning
The General Assembly,
Recalling that the purposes and principles set out in the Charter of the United
Nations include promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and
fundamental freedoms for all,
Reaffirming that all human rights are universal, indivisible and interdependent
and that human rights learning can contribute to the understanding of their
connectedness to people’s daily lives,
Recalling its resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, in which it decided that the
Human Rights Council should, inter alia, promote human rights education and
learning as well as advisory services, technical assistance and capacity-building,
Recalling also the 2005 World Summit Outcome, in which Heads of State and
Government expressed their support for the promotion of human rights education
and learning at all levels, including through the implementation of the World
Programme for Human Rights Education, as appropriate, and encouraged all States
to develop initiatives in this regard, 1
Recalling further its resolutions 62/171 of 18 December 2007 and 63/173 of
18 December 2008 on the International Year of Human Rights Learning and
resolutions 64/82 of 10 December 2009 and 66/173 of 19 December 2011 on the
follow-up thereto,
Welcoming Human Rights Council resolution 24/15 of 24 September 2013, 2 in
which the Council decided on the plan of action for the third phase (2015 –2019) of
the World Programme for Human Rights Education, and stressing the
complementarity of human rights learning and human rights education,
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Resolution 60/1, para. 131.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/68/53/Add.1),
chap. III.
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