First phase (2005-2009) of the World Programme for Human Rights Education

National action plans/strategies for human rights education

This section includes national action plans/strategies for human rights education elaborated by Member States since 1995, in the framework of the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education (1995-2004) or of the World Programme for Human Rights Education (2005-ongoing). Those plans/strategies may be stand-alone efforts or parts of overall national action plans for human rights. They may focus on a specific sector (such as the school system) or on a broad range of audiences (professionals, vulnerable groups, the general public etc.).

To assist and support these efforts, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has developed specific tools, i.e. Guidelines for National Plans of Action for Human Rights Education and a Handbook on National Human Rights Plans of Action.

1. National action plans/strategies for human rights education:

• Brazil: Plano Nacional de Educação em Direitos Humanos
• Burundi: Plan d'Action de Formation Civique et Humaine et d'Education à la Paix et aux Droits de l'Homme
• Colombia: Plan Nacional de Educación en Derechos Humanos (PLANEDH)
• Costa Rica: Plan de acción de educación para todos 2007-2015
• Croatia: National Program of Human Rights Education
• Dominican Republic: Hacia un Plan Nacional de Educación en Derechos Humanos 2004-2006
• Fiji: Fiji National Action Plan for Human Rights Education 2003-2005
• France: Plan d'Action pour l'Education et la Formation aux Droits de l'Homme 2000-2005
• Greece: Human Rights Education Action Plan
• Japan: National Plan of Action for the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education
• Jordan: Action Plan for Human Rights Education 2008-2011
• Mexico: Programa Nacional de Derechos Humanos 2008-2012
• Niger: Plan d'Action National d'éducation à la paix, à la non violence, aux droits de l'homme et à la démocratie en Niger
• Philippines: Philippine Human Rights Education Decade Plan
• Portugal: Plan of Action - United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education
• Senegal: Projet d’un plan d’action national pour le développement de l’éducation aux droits humains, à la paix et à la démocratie 2007-2010
• Slovakia: National Plan for Human Rights Education for 2005-14 (in Slovak)
• Turkey: Human Rights Education Programme of Turkey 1998-2007
• Uruguay: Plan Nacional de Educación en Derechos Humanos - 2007

2. Excerpts on human rights education from overall national plans of action for human rights:

• Australia: National Action Plan
• Bolivia: National Plan of Action for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Medium and Long Term
• Brazil: National Action Plan for Human Rights
• Democratic Republic of Congo: Plan d'Action National pour la Promotion et la Protection des Droits de l'Homme
• Ecuador: National Human Rights Program
• Indonesia: National Plan of Action on Human Rights 1998-2003
• Latvia: National Programme for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights in Latvia
• Malawi: National Plan of Action in the field of Human Rights
• Mexico: National Program to Promote and Strengthen Human Rights
• Moldova: National Human Rights Action Plan 2004-2008
• Norway: Focus on Human Dignity: A Plan of Action for Human Rights
• Peru: Plan Nacional de Derechos Humanos 2006-2010
• Sweden: A Swedish Human Rights Action Plan - Summary
• Venezuela: Plan Nacional de Derechos Humanos