Summary

In accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 39/3, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) prepared a draft plan of action for the fourth phase (2020–2024) of the World Programme for Human Rights Education on the basis of, inter alia, relevant United Nations instruments and documents, the plans of action for the first (2005–2009), second (2010–2014) and third (2015–2019) phases, as well as materials published by OHCHR and other United Nations entities. On 10 and 11 April, OHCHR held a consultation, on the sidelines of the Economic and Social Council Youth Forum, on a preliminary draft, involving relevant international and regional intergovernmental and civil society organizations.

On 14 May, OHCHR submitted a draft text to Member States, United Nations entities and other intergovernmental organizations, national human rights institutions and civil society. As of 28 June, OHCHR had received 26 replies with comments, all of which have been taken into consideration in the present report.

Submissions received by OHCHR

States

1. Argentina
2. Egypt
3. Honduras
4. Italy (late submission)

National human rights institutions

1. Office of the National Ombudsman (Defensor del Pueblo de la Nación) of Argentina
2. Danish Institute for Human Rights
3. National Human Rights Commission of India
4. Kenya National Commission on Human Rights
5. National Human Rights Commission (Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos) of Mexico
6. Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman (Procuraduría para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos) of Nicaragua
7. Nigerian National Human Rights Commission
8. Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines
9. National Human Rights Commission of the Republic of Korea (late submission)