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

  • Committee of Ministers Recommendation on ensuring quality education. CM/Rec(2012)13
  • 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

  • ECRI General Policy Recommendation N°10: Combatting racism and racial discrimination in and through school education (Strasbourg, December 2006)
  • 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 third phase (2015-2019) of the World Programme for Human Rights Education (A/HRC/27/28)
  • United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training
  • 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.

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  • The Right to Human Rights Education - Web Resource
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