A/RES/64/82 United Nations Distr.: General 27 January 2010 General Assembly Sixty-fourth session Agenda item 69 (b) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 10 December 2009 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/64/439/Add.2 (Part I))] 64/82. Follow-up to the International Year of Human Rights Learning The General Assembly, Recalling that the purposes and principles contained in the Charter of the United Nations include promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, Recalling also its resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, in which it decided that the Human Rights Council should, inter alia, promote human rights education and learning as well as advisory services, technical assistance and capacity-building, Recalling further the 2005 World Summit Outcome, in which Heads of State and Government expressed their support for the promotion of human rights education and learning at all levels, including through the implementation of the World Programme for Human Rights Education, as appropriate, and encouraged all States to develop initiatives in that regard, 1 0F Recalling its resolutions 62/171 of 18 December 2007 and 63/173 of 18 December 2008 on the International Year of Human Rights Learning, Welcoming resolution 12/4 adopted by the Human Rights Council on 1 October 2009, 2 in which the Council decided on the focus of the second phase of the World Programme for Human Rights Education, and stressing the complementarity between human rights learning and human rights education, 1F Acknowledging that civil society, academia, the private sector, the media and, where appropriate, parliamentarians can play an important role at the national, regional and international levels in the development and facilitation of ways and means to promote and implement learning about human rights as a way of life at the community level, _______________ 1 2 09-46675 See resolution 60/1, para. 131. See A/HRC/12/50, part one, chap. I. *0946675* Please rec cle ♲