[hr-education] First phase of the World Programme for HRE

Dear all,

As you know, on 10 December 2004, the UN General Assembly proclaimed the
World Programme for Human Rights Education. Its first phase (2005-2007) is
focusing on human rights education in primary and secondary school
systems. However, the Plan of Action of the World Programme became
available only in July 2005, and took further time to be announced
worldwide, which still needs to continue to have it known better and more
widely. Under these circumstances, the first couple of years practically
seem to have been lost before the Plan of Action be known better.

The NGO Working Group on Human Rights Education & Learning is a group of
NGOs in Geneva, principally in consultative status with the UN ECOSOC, and
is part of the Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relations with the UN
(CONGO). The main objective of the NGO Working Group on Human Rights
Education & Learning is to ensure that NGOs participate in the global
policy-making process on human rights education within the UN
institutions.

The NGO Working Group on Human Rights Education & Learning would like to
hear your comments on how the first phase of the World Programme has been
recognised and if the remaining period of the first phase (2005-2007)
would be enough to carry out relevant activities along with the Plan of
Action for the first phase of the World Programme. I would like to draw
your attention to the fact that the World Programme is a standing
programme without any particular end, but only each phase of the World
Programme has a specific time-frame to focus on a particular sector which
is supposed to be for 3-5 years for each. The themes of the following
sectors after the first phase are not yet determined, and are supposed to
be determined by the Human Rights Council, the main human rights body of
the UN which is still in the process of institutionalisation to be fully
operational.

Looking forward to your comments, 

Thank you very much for your attention. 

Yours Cordially, 

Kazunari Fujii 
Chair 
NGO Working Group on Human Rights Education & Learning 
Geneva 
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Kazunari Fujii 
SGI UN Liaison Office 
Geneva 






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