FYI

Hi all, Here's some info given our collective interest in human rights education.

Subject: Joint NGO written submission to the UN Human Rights Council 10th session


Dear Colleagues,

We wanted to update you on the developments regarding the Joint Statement on human rights education to the Human Rights Council.

We received over 600 responses to our call for signatures last month. Thank you all very much for your support! I am still responding to all e-mails individually, so please be patient -- you will receive an answer!

The Joint Statement, along with a list of all signatories, is now available on the Human Rights Council's 10th session website. The document number is 112 (A/HRC/10/NGO/112):
http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/sdpage_e.aspx?b=10&se=83&t=7
or directly at:
http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G09/119/92/PDF/G0911992.pdf?OpenElement

For all participants at the Human Rights Council session, NGO written statements numbers are also indicated as relevant documents under the Agenda Item to be dealt the Order of the Day (daily schedule) on the day.

The written statement was submitted under Agenda Item 5 of the Council: Human Rights Bodies and Mechanisms. The general debate on Agenda Item 5 is now re-scheduled to be dealt with this week at the Council.

During the general debate, some interventions by member states are expected on the draft UN Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training, and the World Programme for Human Rights Education (WPHRE). A number of NGOs of the NGO Working Group on Human Rights Education and Learning, Geneva, will make two joint oral interventions.

There are two resolutions of the Human Rights Council expected to be put on the table during the rest of the 10th session - one on the Draft UN Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training and the other on the WPHRE.

Sincerely yours,

Kazunari Fujii
Chair
NGO WG on HREL, Geneva
Of the Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the UN
(CONGO)
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Soka Gakkai International (SGI)
Geneva UN Liaison Office


Frank Elbers
Director of Programmes, HREA