A/RES/56/167 Welcoming the initiative of the Office of the High Commissioner to develop further the project entitled “Assisting Communities Together”, launched in 1998, supported by voluntary funds and designed to provide small grants to grass-roots and local organizations carrying out practical human rights activities, Welcoming also other United Nations public information activities in the field of human rights, including the World Public Information Campaign on Human Rights and the implementation of and follow-up to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, 4 the project of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization entitled “Towards a culture of peace”, and the Dakar Framework for Action adopted at the World Education Forum, 5 which, inter alia, reconfirmed the mandated role of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in coordinating Education for All partners and maintaining their collective momentum within the process of securing quality basic education, Recognizing the value of information and communications technologies in human rights education to promote dialogue and understanding of human rights, and in that context welcoming, inter alia, the “CyberSchoolBus”6 and the United Nations Children’s Fund “Voices of Youth” 7 initiatives, Recalling the mid-term global evaluation of progress made towards the achievement of the objectives of the Decade undertaken by the Office of the High Commissioner, in cooperation with all other principal actors in the Decade, which was presented in the relevant report of the High Commissioner to the General Assembly at its fifty-fifth session, 8 1. Takes note with appreciation of the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education, 1995–2004, and public information activities in the field of human rights; 9 2. Urges all Governments to promote the development of comprehensive, participatory and sustainable national strategies for human rights education and to establish and strengthen, as a priority in education policies, knowledge of human rights in both its theoretical dimension and its practical application; 3. Welcomes the steps taken by Governments and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to implement the Plan of Action for the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education, 1995–2004,2 and to develop public information activities in the field of human rights, as indicated in the report of the High Commissioner; 4. Urges all Governments to contribute further to the implementation of the Plan of Action, in particular by: (a) Encouraging the establishment, in accordance with national conditions, of broadly representative national committees for human rights education responsible for the development of comprehensive, effective and sustainable _______________ 4 A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III. See United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Final Report of the World Education Forum, Dakar, Senegal, 26–28 April 2000 (Paris, 2000). 6 See http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/humanrights. 7 See http://www.unicef.org/voy. 8 See A/55/360. 9 See A/56/271. 5 3