[hr-education] Draft resolution for a second UN Decade for HRE

Dear members,

Please find below the draft resolution for a second Decade for Human
Rights Education that the delegation of Costa Rica will be introducing to
the members of the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva today.


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Costa Rica 				Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Item 17
Draft 1

United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education Commission on Human
Rights resolution 2004/…

The Commission on Human Rights,

Convinced that human rights education is a long-term and life-long process
by which all people at all levels of development and in all strata of
society learn respect for the dignity of others and the means and methods
of ensuring that respect in all societies [CHR res 2003/70], and that
human rights education significantly contributes to promoting equality and
sustainable development, preventing conflict and human rights violations,
enhancing participation and democratic processes, with a view to develop
societies where all human rights of all are valued and respected,

Recalling its resolution 2003/70 of 25 April 2003, in which it requested
the Office of the High Commissioner, jointly with the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to consult with all
Member States on the achievements and shortcomings of the United Nations
Decade for Human Rights Education (1995-2004) and on the establishment of
a voluntary fund for human rights education, and to report to the
Commission at its next session,

Recalling also resolution 2003/5 of 13 August 2003 of the Sub-Commission
on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, which recommended the
Commission to decide to recommend to the Economic and Social Council that
it recommend to the General Assembly the proclamation of a second Decade
for Human Rights Education to begin on 1 January 2005,

Noting General Assembly resolution 58/181 of 22 December 2003, in which
the Assembly decided to dedicate a plenary meeting at its fifty-ninth
session on the occasion of Human Rights Day (10 December 2004) to review
the achievements of the Decade and to discuss possible future activities
for the enhancement of human rights education,

1. Takes note of the report of the High Commissioner on the achievements
and shortcomings of the Decade and on future United Nations activities in
this area (E/CN.4/2004/93), as well as of the report of the High
Commissioner to the General Assembly on the mid-term global evaluation of
the Decade (A/55/360) and of the report of the High Commissioner to the
Commission on the follow-up to the Decade (E/CN.4/2003/101), which
indicated achievements and shortcomings of the Decade as well as
suggestions for its follow-up;

2. Takes also note of the need expressed by the international community,
as indicated in those reports, to continue a global framework for human
rights education beyond the Decade in order to ensure priority focus on
human rights education within the international agenda, provide a common
collective framework for action for all relevant actors, support existing
programmes and provide an incentive for the development of new ones, as
well as enhance partnership and cooperation at all levels;

3. Recommends to the 2004 session of the Economic and Social Council to
recommend to the fifty-ninth session of the General Assembly the
proclamation of a second decade for human rights education to begin on 1
January 2005;

4. Requests the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to
prepare and submit to the fifty-ninth session of the General Assembly an
International Plan of Action for the Second Decade for Human Rights
Education (2005-2014) which shall be properly structured, formulated in
realistic terms, with an indication of at least minimum action for each
country accompanied by indicators for evaluation of success, and which
shall include provisions to support activities undertaken by all actors,
and in particular non-governmental organizations;

5. Further recommends that consideration of the idea of a Convention on
Human Rights Education be among the activities to be undertaken during the
Second Decade, and in this regard request the Secretary General to invite
the comments and suggestions of governments and interested international
and non governmental organizations on the idea of a Convention on Human
Rights Education, and to submit an analytical summary of the responses
received to the Commission at its sixty first session;

6. Recommends to the Secretary-General to ensure that United Nations
assistance provided at the request of Members States to develop their
national systems of promotion and protection of human rights focuses,
inter alia, on human rights education;

7. Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to bring the present
resolution to the attention of all members of the international community
and of intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations concerned with
human rights education and to report to the Commission at its sixty-first
session on progress made towards its implementation.




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