International momentum (Nov 2009)

International momentum (Nov 2009)

There are two significant recent developments in support of human rights-based education at the International level:

• The UN Human Rights Council - one of the ‘principal organs' of the United Nations - has decided that one of the two target areas for the second phase of the World Programme for Human Rights Education (from 2010) should be human rights training programmes for teachers and educators.
• A draft of a UN Declaration on the Right to Human Rights Education is to be submitted to the Human Rights Council for consideration at its 13th session in March 2010.