Links
to relevant organizations and declarations and instruments relevant to Education and Human Rights.
Organizations:
- UNESCO’s Headquarters
- The World Programme on HRE
- Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- UNICEF
- HURIGHTS Osaka
- Asian Regional Resource Centre for Human Rights Education (ARRC)
- Amnesty International
Declarations:
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- United Nations Millennium Development Goals
- The Dakar World Declaration on Education For All
- The Dakar Framework for Action
- Strategy on Human Rights adopted by UNESCOs 32nd General Conference in 2003
- UN Programme of Reform and Common Understanding, launched in 1997, in which the Secretary-General called on all UN entities to mainstream human rights into their respective activities
- General Comment No. 13 on the Right to Education from the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
- International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights
- Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women
- International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- UNESCO Convention Against Discrimination in Education
- Convention Against Discrimination in Education
- International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment No. 1: The Aims of Education
- Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna, 25 June 1993)
UNESCO Instruments
• The Recommendation concerning Education for International Understanding, Co-operation and Peace, and Education relating to Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (Paris, 1974)
• The World Plan of Action on Education for Human Rights and Democracy (Montreal, 1993)
• The Declaration and Integrated Framework of Action on Education for Peace, Human Rights and Democracy (Paris, 1995)
• The UNESCO Declaration of Principles on Tolerance and the Follow-up Plan of Action for the United Nations Year for Tolerance (Paris, 1995)
• The Declaration and the Programme of Action on a Cultural of Peace (1999)
• Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity (2001)
