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Implementation of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training


High-level panel discussion on the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training :
good practices and challenges

14 September 2016, 3 to 6 p.m., Palais des Nations, Room XX, Geneva

Universal Periodic Review of Republic of Moldova 2016

Submission to the 26th UN Human Rights Council Session on the Universal Periodic Review of Republic of Moldova.

Integrating Child Rights in Development Cooperation

The European Commission and UNICEF developed an innovative toolkit for development partners to integrate child rights in all sectors of programming and policy-making 

This toolkit offers a set of tools and practical guidance on how children’s rights and initiatives to promote the well-being of all children can be effectively integrated and applied across programmes of bilateral and multilateral development assistance.

Human rights to be included in school curriculum

« Moves are afoot to include human rights as part of the school curriculum following a recommendation by the Human Rights Council of Sri Lanka (HRCSL). 

Director General of National Institute of Education (NIE) Prof. Abeyrathna Bandara told The Nation that the HRCSL had come forward with certain proposals in order to include human rights in the school curriculum and added that they were in the process of formulating a system through which the subject could be implemented.

Vietnam : ensuring the rights of ethnic minorities

In the frame of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), Vietnam intends to ensure the rights of ethnic minorities.

Togo : children rights education at the forefront of priorities

The Human Rights National Commission (CNDH) has undertaken an awareness campaign on children rights éducation in learning institutions. 

Human Rights Prize 2013

On the 10th of december, on the occasion of the international human rights day, the United Nations have awarded the Human Rights Prize 2013 to the former president of the moroccan human rights organisation, Ms. Khadija Ryadi. This frontrunner, who coordinates a network of 23 non-governemental organisations (NGOs), is the first women of the Maghreb region and of the Arab world as well to be awarded such a prize.

Guiding principles for taking into account children's rights by CAC 40 enterprises

UNICEF, together with UN Global Compact and Save the Children developed the Business Principles for Children’s Rights in March 2012.

Vietnam increases commitment to human rights

« The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on July 23 launched a key project to help Vietnam improve its obligation to human rights.

Over the next three years, the 1.2 million USD joint Vietnamese Government and UN project will help ministries and relevant agencies understand their human rights duties and improve their ability to report on progress.

101 good practices in human rights education

Upon the initiative of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE/ODIHR), the four partner organizations – the Council of Europe (CoE), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the OSCE/ODIHR – decided to develop a practical tool that would provide examples and guidance for

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