World Programme for Human Rights Educations – HRC ninth session – UNHCHR annual report and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-Geneneral

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER

FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND REPORTS OF THE OFFICE OF THE HIGH

COMMISSIONER AND THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

World Programme for Human Rights Education

Report of the High Commissioner*

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* Late submission.

GE.08-14753 (E) 310708

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7. OHCHR has also continued to ensure the secretariat of the United Nations Inter-Agency Coordinating Committee on Human Rights Education in the School System, in accordance with the World Programme plan of action. The Committee is composed of 12 United Nations entities (the International Labour Organization, OHCHR, the Joint United Nations Programme for HIV/AIDS, the United Nations Development Group, the United Nations Development Programme, the Department of Public Information, the International Bureau of Education of UNESCO, the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East and the World Bank) and aims to facilitate coordinated United Nations support for the national integration of human rights education in primary and secondary school systems.¹

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11. OHCHR has continued to contribute to the implementation of the World Programme and its plan of action by conducting the following activities:²

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(c) Supporting grass-roots human rights education initiatives through the Assisting Communities Together Project, a joint initiative of OHCHR and UNDP. The project provides small grants to national and local non-governmental organizations for community-based human rights education and training projects. In the fifth phase (2005-2008), which focused on supporting activities within the school system, OHCHR supported 155 projects in 44 countries.⁴ In May 2008, UNDP and OHCHR launched the sixth phase (2008-2009) of the Project, in which the participation of 33 countries is envisaged. To create synergy with the first phase of the World Programme, the sixth phase of the Project will focus on supporting projects contributing to the integration of human rights education in primary and secondary school systems and to the commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;⁵

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¹ More information is available at the address www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/education/training/UN-inter-agency.htm.

² More information on all these activities is available on the address www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/education/training/index.htm.

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⁴ In Africa (Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, Uganda); in the Arab region (Iraq, Palestinian Authority); in the Asia-Pacific group (Afghanistan, Cook Islands, Indonesia, Mongolia, Samoa, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste, Vanuatu); in Europe and Central Asia (Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldova, Serbia and Montenegro, Tajikistan, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Ukraine); and in Latin America and the Caribbean (Belize, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, Uruguay).

⁵ The Assisting Communities Together Project is available at the address www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/education/training/act.htm.

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