[hr-education] Re: HRE at 60th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights

Dear All,

The joint NGO statement of 18 NGOs was addressed at the Commission
this morning.

Below is the text of the draft resolution, as of Monday 19 April,
prepared by Costa Rica and available to public at the Commission
today.

At present, 25 Commission Member States are co-sponsoring this draft
resolution.  Other Member States still may joint to co-sponsor this
draft resolution before the day of adoption, expected to take place
on Wednesday 21 April.  It is certainly worthy that NGOs/civil
society organisation continue lobbying in constructive dialogue with
the government of the Commission member states countries in their
respective countries' capital till the end.

Let us see how it goes in 2 days from now...

Sincerely,

Kazunari Fujii
SGI UN Liaison Office

Robert Trocmé
Director, SUHR
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UNITEDNATIONS
Economic and Social Council
Distr.LIMITED
E/CN.4/2004/L.109
15 April 2004Original:ENGLISH

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Sixtieth session
Agenda item 17 (c)
PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS:
INFORMATION AND EDUCATION

Austria, Bolivia*, Congo, Costa Rica, Croatia, Chile, Dominican
Republic, Ecuador*,
El  Salvador*, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Mexico, Monaco*,
Nicaragua*, Peru, Portugal*, Russian Federation, San Marino*,
Slovakia*,  Spain*, Thailand*, Uruguay*, Venezuela*: draft resolution

*  In accordance with rule 69, paragraph 3, of the rules of procedure
of the functional commissions of the Economic and Social Council.


2004/…	Follow-up to the United Nations Decade for Human Rights
Education

The Commission on Human Rights,

Pp1 Recalling its resolution 2003/70 of 25 April 2003,

Pp2 Recalling resolution 2003/5 of 13 August 2003 of the
Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights,

Pp3 Reaffirming the need of continued actions at the international
level to support national efforts to achieve the Millennium
Development Goals, in particular universal access to basic education
for all, including human rights education, by the year 2015,

Pp4 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,
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,

Pp5 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,

Op 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), 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;

Op 2. Takes also note of the view expressed in those reports of the
need 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;

Op 3. Recommends to the 2004 session of the Economic and Social
Council to recommend to the fifty-ninth session of the General
Assembly to proclaim a World Programme for Human Rights Education to
begin on 1 January 2005, structured in consecutive phases, in order
to maintain and develop implementation of human rights education
programmes in all sectors;

Op 4. Requests the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
to prepare, in cooperation with UNESCO and other relevant
governmental and non governmental actors, and submit for
consideration and adoption to the General Assembly, the World
Programme's Plan of Action for the first phase (2005-2007) of the
program, focusing on the primary and secondary school systems;

Op 4bis Request also the Office of the High Commissioner for Human
Rights that the Plan of Action of each phase of the World Programme
shall be properly structured, formulated in realistic terms with an
indication of at least minimum action, shall be funded by voluntary
means, shall include provisions to support activities undertaken by
all actors, and in particular non-governmental organizations, and
shall be evaluated by the Office;

Op 5. Recommends that the Secretary-General to ensure that an
adequate component of United Nations assistance provided at the
request of Members States to develop their national systems of
promotion and protection of human rights supports  human rights
education;

Op 6. Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to report to the
Commission at its sixty-first session on progress made towards the
implementation of this resolution;

Op 7. Decides to consider this issue at its sixty-first session under
the same agenda item.

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