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National human rights institutions (2020), para. 04
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- Recalling further the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993, 4 which reaffirmed the important and constructive role played by national human rights institutions, in __________________ particular in their advisory capacity to the competent authorities and their role in preventing and remedying human rights violations, in disseminating information on human rights and in education in human rights,
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- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Promoting the Culture of Peace with Love and Conscience (2019), para. 12
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- 3. Invites all Member States, organizations of the United Nations system and other international and regional organizations, as well as the private sector and civil society, including non-governmental organizations and individuals, to build the Culture of Peace with Love and Conscience in accordance with the culture and other appropriate circumstances or customs of their local, national and regional communities, including through quality education and public awareness -raising activities, thereby fostering sustainable development;
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Information and communications technologies for sustainable development (2020), para. 57
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- 15. Further welcomes the work of the Information for All Programme of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, which aims to assist Member States in formulating policies to bridge digital divides and ensure equitable knowledge societies, and also welcomes the holding of Global Media and Information Literacy Week from 24 to 31 October 2019;
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
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- Mar 5, 2020
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World Programme for Human Rights Education (2017), para. 05
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- Recalling General Assembly resolution 59/113A of 10 December 2004, in which the Assembly proclaimed the World Programme for Human Rights Education as an international effort under the auspices of the United Nations to advance the implementation of human rights education in all sectors, and all previous resolutions of the Human Rights Council on human rights education and training,
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- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Mar 5, 2020
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The right to education: follow-up to Human Rights Council resolution 8/4 (2010), para. 09
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- Bearing in mind the adoption by the General Assembly of resolution 64/290 of 9 July 2010, on the right to education in emergency situations,
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- Education
- Humanitarian
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Permanent memorial to and remembrance of the victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade (2013), para. 19
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- 11. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session on continued action to implement the programme of educational outreach, including actions taken by Member States in implementing the present resolution, as well as steps to enhance world public awareness of the commemorative activities and the permanent memorial initiative;
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- Education
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Offers by Member States of study and training facilities for inhabitants of Non-Self-Governing Territories (2010), para. 04
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- Conscious of the importance of promoting the educational advancement of the inhabitants of Non-Self-Governing Territories,
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- Education
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Sudan (2000), para. 20
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- (k) The efforts to implement the right to education;
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Questions relating to information (2003), para. 008
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- (d) To enhance regional efforts and cooperation among developing countries, as well as cooperation between developed and developing countries, to strengthen communication capacities and to improve the media infrastructure and communication technology in the developing countries, especially in the areas of training and dissemination of information;
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin (2003), para. 28
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- 11. Reaffirms the efforts of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to promote the use of identification systems, in particular the application of the Object-ID standard, and to encourage the linking of identification systems and existing databases, including the one developed by the International Criminal Police Organization-Interpol, to allow for the electronic transmission of information in order to reduce illicit trafficking in cultural property, and encourages the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to make further efforts in this regard in cooperation with Member States, where appropriate;
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Education for democracy (2018), para. 15
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- Acknowledging the important role of international, regional and other intergovernmental organizations, civil society, academia, the private sector and other stakeholders in support of democracy and education for democracy,
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- Education
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Keeping the promise: united to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (2010), para. 125
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- (g) Continuing to implement national programmes and measures to eliminate illiteracy worldwide as part of the commitments made in the Dakar Framework for Action, adopted in 2000 at the World Education Forum, 16F 17 and in the Millennium Development Goals. In this regard, we recognize the important contribution of South-South and triangular cooperation through, inter alia, innovative pedagogical methods in literacy;
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- Education
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Towards global partnerships: a principle-based approach to enhanced cooperation between the United Nations and all relevant partners (2016), para. 53
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- 23. Invites the academic, research and scientific communities to contribute to the realization of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and in this regard recognizes the important role of the United Nations Academic Impact, among other initiatives, and encourages it to play an important and growing role in fostering global citizenship, filling knowledge gaps and facilitating better understanding of the core principles and activities of the United Nations;
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
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- Mar 5, 2020
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The right to education: follow-up to Human Rights Council resolution 8/4 (2019), para. 15
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- Reaffirming the rights to non-discrimination and equality of educational opportunity as central to the full realization of the right to education as enshrined in the Convention against Discrimination in Education of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
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- Mar 5, 2020
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The girl child (2008), para. 10
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- Reaffirming the Dakar Framework for Action, adopted at the World Education Forum in 2000, 15 14F
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- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace (2014), para. 35
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- 3. Invites Member States and international sport organizations to continue to assist developing countries, in particular the least developed countries, in their capacity-building efforts in sport and physical education, by providing national experiences and best practices, as well as financial, technical and logistic resources for the development of sport programmes;
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Promotion of interreligious and intercultural dialogue, understanding and cooperation for peace (2015), para. 31
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- 5. Further recognizes the leading role of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on intercultural dialogue and its contribution to interreligious dialogue, as well as its activities related to the culture of peace and non-violence and its focus on concrete actions at the global, regional and subregional levels;
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Offers by Member States of study and training facilities for inhabitants of Non-Self-Governing Territories (2006), para. 04
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- Conscious of the importance of promoting the educational advancement of the inhabitants of Non-Self-Governing Territories,
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- Education
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of intolerance and of discrimination based on religion or belief (2011), para. 14
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- Underlining the importance of education in the promotion of tolerance, which involves the acceptance by the public of, and its respect for, diversity, including with regard to religious expression, and underlining also the fact that education, in particular at school, should contribute in a meaningful way to promoting tolerance and the elimination of discrimination based on religion or belief,
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Preventing and combating corrupt practices and the transfer of proceeds of corruption, facilitating asset recovery and returning such assets to legitimate owners, in particular to countries of origin, in accordance with the United Nations Convention against Corruption (2017), para. 011
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- Recognizing that education plays a fundamental role in the prevention of and fight against corruption, inasmuch as it makes corrupt behaviour soci ally unacceptable,
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- Education
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training (2011), para. 14
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- Acknowledging the fundamental importance of human rights education and training in contributing to the promotion, protection and effective realization of all human rights,
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- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Questions of American Samoa, Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guam, Montserrat, Pitcairn, Saint Helena, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the United States Virgin Islands (2013), para. 149
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- 3. Also requests the administering Power to continue its assistance for the improvement of the economic, social, educational and other conditions of the population of the Territory and to continue its discussions with the territorial Government on how best to support socioeconomic and environmental security in Pitcairn;
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- Education
- Environment
- Social & Cultural Rights
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Economic and other activities which affect the interests of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories (2013), para. 15
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- 3. Reaffirms the responsibility of the administering Powers under the Charter to promote the political, economic, social and educational advancement of the Non-Self-Governing Territories, and reaffirms the legitimate rights of their peoples over their natural resources;
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- Education
- Social & Cultural Rights
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace (2009), para. 02
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- Recalling its resolutions 58/5 of 3 November 2003, 59/10 of 27 October 2004, its decision to proclaim 2005 the International Year for Sport and Physical Education, to strengthen sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace, and its resolutions 60/1 of 16 September 2005, 60/9 of 3 November 2005, 61/10 of 3 November 2006, and 62/271 of 23 July 2008,
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Culture and development (2003), para. 28
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- 6. Encourages the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to continue its work to promote greater awareness of the crucial relationship between culture and development and the important role of information and communication technologies in this relationship;
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Strengthening the role of the United Nations in enhancing the effectiveness of the principle of periodic and genuine elections and the promotion of democratization (2004), para. 07
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- Recognizing the need for strengthening democratic processes, electoral institutions and national capacity-building, including the capacity to administer fair elections, increase citizen participation and provide civic education, in requesting countries in order to consolidate and regularize the achievements of previous elections and support subsequent elections,
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Education for democracy (2016), para. 22
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- 8. Encourages international, regional and other intergovernmental organizations, within their respective mandates, to share their best practices and experiences in the field of education for democracy, including but not limited to civic education, with each other and with the United Nations system, as appr opriate;
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Rights of the child (2004), para. 060
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- (h) To harness the rapidly evolving information and communication technologies to support education at an affordable cost, including open and distance education, while reducing inequality in access and quality;
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- Education
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Terrorism and human rights (2018), para. 17
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- Conscious that there are a number of drivers underlying radicalization to terrorism, and that development based on the principles of social justice, inclusion and equal opportunities can contribute to the prevention of terrorism and violent extremism conducive to terrorism, and to the promotion of inclusive, open and resilient societies, notably through education, and affirming the determination of States to work towards conflict resolution, to confront oppression, to eradicate poverty, to promote sustained economic growth, sustainable development, global prosperity, good governance, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all and the rule of law, to improve intercultural understanding and to promote respect for all,
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (2007), para. 26
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- 19. Calls upon the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in conformity with her mandate established by the General Assembly in its resolution 48/141 of 20 December 1993, to continue to provide, at the request of States, advisory services for the prevention of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, including for the preparation of national reports to the Committee against Torture and for the establishment and operation of national preventive mechanisms, as well as technical assistance for the development, production and distribution of teaching material for this purpose;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Mar 5, 2020
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