A/RES/63/173. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2008

• Resolution Number: A/RES/63/173
• Session: 63rd
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/63/173

General Assembly Distr.: General

20 March 2009

Sixty-third session

Agenda item 64 (b)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2008

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/63/430/Add.2)]

63/173. International Year of Human Rights Learning

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

that the purposes and principles contained in the Charter of the

United Nations include promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and

fundamental freedoms for all,

Recalling also

its resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, in which it decided that

the Human Rights Council should, inter alia, promote human rights education and

learning as well as advisory services, technical assistance and capacity-building,

Recalling further

the 2005 World Summit Outcome, in which Heads of State

and Government expressed their support for the promotion of human rights

education and learning at all levels, including through the implementation of the

World Programme for Human Rights Education, as appropriate, and encouraged all

States to develop initiatives in that regard,

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Recalling

its resolution 62/171 of 18 December 2007, by which it proclaimed

the year commencing on 10 December 2008 the International Year of Human Rights

Learning,

Considering

that the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of

Human Rights in 2008 is a suitable occasion for the United Nations to increase its

efforts to promote a human rights culture worldwide through human rights learning

as a way of life, at all levels,

Reaffirming

the complementarities between the World Programme for Human

Rights Education

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and the International Year of Human Rights Learning,

Recognizing

human rights learning as encompassing the acquisition and

internalization of knowledge and understanding of one’s own and others’ human

dignity,

Reaffirming

that activities undertaken during the International Year of Human

Rights Learning should broaden and deepen human rights learning on the basis of

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1 See resolution 60/1, para. 131.

2 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-third Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/63/53), chap. I,

resolution 6/24.