A/RES/57/212 United Nations Distr.: General 28 February 2003 General Assembly Fifty-seventh session Agenda item 109 (b) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Third Committee (A/57/556/Add.2 and Corr.1–3)] 57/212. United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education, 1995–2004 The General Assembly, Guided by the fundamental and universal principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 Reaffirming article 26 of the Declaration, in which it is stated that “education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms”, and recalling the provisions of other relevant international human rights instruments that reflect the aims of the article, Recalling the high importance attached to human rights education by the World Conference on Human Rights, held in Vienna from 14 to 25 June 1993, Recalling also the relevant resolutions adopted by the General Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights concerning the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education, 1995–2004, Believing that human rights education constitutes an important vehicle for the elimination of gender-based discrimination and for ensuring equal opportunities through the promotion and protection of the human rights of women, Convinced that every woman, man and child, in order to realize their full human potential, must be made aware of all their human rights and fundamental freedoms, Convinced also that human rights education should involve more than the provision of information and should constitute a comprehensive, lifelong process by which people at all levels of development and in all societies learn respect for the dignity of others and the means and methods of ensuring that respect in all societies, Recognizing that human rights education is essential to human rights and fundamental freedoms and that carefully dissemination and information programmes can have a catalytic regional and international initiatives to promote and protect prevent human rights violations, _______________ 1 02 55322 Resolution 217 A (III). the realization of designed training, effect on national, human rights and