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Texts adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe

Committee of Ministers Recommendation on the Council of Europe Charter on Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education. CM/Rec(2010)7
Committee of Ministers Recommendation on Education for Democratic Citizenship. CM/Rec(2002)12
Committee of Ministers Recommendation on teaching and learning about human rights in schools CM/Rec(85)7
Committee of Ministers Resolution (78)41 on the Teaching of Human Rights

Texts adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

Parliamentary Assembly Recommendation for the promotion of a culture of democracy and human rights through teacher education. PACE Rec 1849 (2008)
Parliamentary Assembly Recommendation on Education for Europe. PACE Rec 1682 (2004)
Parliamentary Assembly Recommendation on Education in the responsibilities of the individual. PACE Rec 1401 (1999)
Parliamentary Assembly Recommendation on human rights education. PACE Rec 1346 (1997)

Texts adopted by the Council of Europe Congress of Local and Regional Authorities

Congress of Local and Regional Authorities Resolution 332 (2011)1 on Education for democratic citizenship – tools for cities

Texts adopted by other bodies of the Council of Europe

Conclusions of the Evaluation Conference of the 2005 European Year of Citizenship through Education (Sinaia, April 2006). DGIV/EDU/CAHCIT (2006) 9 rev 3
The Declaration and the Action Plan of the Council of Europe 3rd Summit of Heads of State and Government (Warsaw, May 2005)
Conclusions of the Budapest Conference of Youth Ministers (Conclusions and recommendations) (2005)
Resolution on results and conclusions of the completed projects on the 1997-2000 Medium-term programme adopted by the Ministers of Education of the Council of Europe (Cracow, October 2000)
Committee of Ministers’ Declaration and programme on education for democratic citizenship, based on the rights and responsibilities of citizens (1999)

Texts adopted by other institutions

Plan of Action for the second phase (2010-2014) of the World Programme for Human Rights Education (A/HRC/15/28)
United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training
Revised draft plan of action for the first phase (2005-2009) of the World Programme for Human Rights Education. A/59/525/Rev.1
United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014): International Implementation Scheme.
United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education (1995-2004) Plan of Action.
1995: The Integrated Framework of Action on Education for Peace, Human Rights and Democracy.

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