The UN Human Rights Council will convene a high-level meeting on human rights education during its thirty-third session in September. The panel discussion will mark the fifth anniversary of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training, which was adopted on 19 December 2011. This landmark document recognises the right of every one of the planet’s seven billion people to have access to human rights education, a lifelong process involving all ages, all parts of society, and every kind of education, formal and informal. Many NGOs, academic institutions and other civil society organisations were involved in the drafting process of the Declaration. The theme of the high-level meeting will be “The implementation of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training: good practices and challenges.”
HREA will be participating in the meeting as a member of HRE 2020: Global Coalition for Human Rights Education. HRE 2020 is a civil society coalition to support and strengthen the implementation of international human rights education commitments. It seeks to ensure a systematic monitoring of governments implementation of human rights education provisions in international human rights instruments, including the UN Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training and the World Programme for Human Rights Education.