National Action Plans 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) and of the World Programme for Human Rights Education (2005-ongoing). To support those 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.

Part 1 below includes national action plans or strategies focussing only on human rights education. Part 2 consists of relevant excerpts of overall national action plans for human rights. The action plans or strategies focus on a specific sector (such as the school system) or on various audiences (professionals, vulnerable groups, the general public etc.).

Part 1. National action plans or strategies for human rights education:

• Brazil:Plano Nacional de Educação em Direitos Humanos 2003
• Burundi: Plan d'Action de Formation Civique et Humaine et d'Education à la Paix et aux Droits de l'Homme 2007-2008  
• Colombia: Plan Nacional de Educación en Derechos Humanos (PLANEDH) 2010  
• Costa Rica: Plan de acción de educación para todos 2007-2015
• Croatia: National Program of Human Rights Education 1999
• Dominican Republic: Hacia un Plan Nacional de Educación en Derechos Humanos 2004-2006
• 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 2008
• Honduras: Programa Nacional de Educación en Justicia, Derechos Humanos y Cultura de Paz - 2012
• Japan: National Plan of Action for the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education 1996
• Jordan: Action Plan for Human Rights Education 2008-2011
• 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 2002
• Peru: Plan Nacional de Educación en Derechos y Deberes Fundamentales al 2021
• Philippines: Philippine Human Rights Education Decade Plan 1998-2007
• Portugal: Plan of Action - United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education 1999-2004
• 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

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

• Australia: Australia’s National Human Rights Action Plan 2012 | National Action Plan 2004
• Azerbaijan: National Program for Action to Raise Effectiveness of the Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms in the Republic of Azerbaijan 2011
• Bolivia: National Action Plan for Human Rights 2009-2013 | National Plan of Action for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Medium and Long Term 1999
• Brazil: Update of the Programa Nacional de Direitos Humanos 2010 | Programa Nacional de Direitos Humanos 2009 | National Action Plan for Human Rights 1996
• Cape Verde: Plan National d’Action pour les droits humains et La Citoyenneté 2003
• Chad: Plan d’Action National de Promotion et de Protection des Droits de L’Homme au TChad 2012-2015
• China: National Human Rights Action Plan of China 2012-2015 | National Human Rights Action Plan of China 2009-2010
• Croatia: National Programme for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights 2008-2011
• Democratic Republic of Congo: Plan d'Action National pour la Promotion et la Protection des Droits de l'Homme 2000
• Ecuador: National Human Rights Program 1998
• Ethiopia: National Human Rights Action Plan 2013-2015
• Finland: National Action Plan on Fundamental and Human Rights 2012-2013
• Germany: National Action Plan of the Federal Republic of Germany to Fight Racism, Xenophobia, Anti-Semitism and Related Intolerance 2002
• Guatemala: National Action Plan on Human Rights 2007-2017
• Honduras: Resumen Ejecutivo del Contenido de la Primera Política Pública y Plan Nacional de Acción en Derechos Humanos 2012
• Indonesia: National Plan of Action on Human Rights 1998-2003
• Iraq: The Iraqi National Human Rights Action Plan 2011
• Latvia: National Programme for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights in Latvia 1995
• Lebanon: Executive Summary – The National Action Plan for Human Rights in Lebanon 2014-2019
• Malawi: National Plan of Action in the Field of Human Rights 1995-1996
• Mauritanie: Plan national d’action pour la promotion et la protection des droits de l’homme 2003
• Mexico: Plan Nacional de Desarrollo 2013-2018 | Programa Nacional de Derechos Humanos 2008-2012 | Programa Nacional de Derechos Humanos 2005-2007 | Programa Nacional de Promoción y Fortalecimiento de los Derechos Humanos 2004-2006 | National Program to Promote and Strengthen Human Rights 1998
• Moldova: National Human Rights Action Plan 2011-2014 | National Human Rights Action Plan 2004-2008
• Morocco: Plan d’Action national en matière de Démocratie et des Droits de l’Homme 2011-2016
• New Zealand:The New Zealand Action Plan for Human Rights 2005-2010
• Nigeria: National Action Plan for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in Nigeria 2009-2013 | National Action Plan for the Promotion & Protection of Human Rights 2006
• Norway: Plan of Action for Human Rights 2000-2005 | Focus on Human Dignity: A Plan of Action for Human Rights 1999
• Paraguay: Plan Nacional de Derechos Humanos 2013
• Peru: Plan Nacional de Derechos Humanos 2006-2010
• Republic of Korea: English Summary of National Action Plan for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights 2007-2011
• Sri Lanka: National Action Plan for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights 2011-2016
• Sudan: National Action Plan for the Protection and Protection of Human Rights in Sudan 2013-2023
• Sweden: National Action Plan for Human Rights 2006-2009 | A Swedish Human Rights Action Plan – Summary 2002-2004
• Tanzania: National Action Plan for Human Rights 2013-2017
• Thailand: Development of the National Human Rights Plans of Thailand 2011
• Venezuela: Plan Nacional de Derechos Humanos 1999-2004