| dc.description.abstract | The World Program for Human Rights Education (WPHRE) was proclaimed by all Member States of the United Nations (UN) in December 2004 and contributes to promoting equality, preventing conflict and enhances participation and democratic processes. Every UN Member State worked out a National Action Plan focusing on primary and secondary school systems as a concrete strategy and a practical guidance for implementing Human Rights Education (HRE) in the first phase of the World Program.
Concerning Uganda, the MOES in cooperation with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNOHCHR), United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) and the Uganda National Commission for UNESCO (UNATCOM) took leadership in developing a concept paper that was adopted as a program for implementing HRE in both primary and post-primary institutions. The specific subjects of the National Action Plan on Human Rights Education (NAPHRE) are drawn from within five thematic areas to address HRE in primary and secondary schooling including education policy, policy implementation, the learning environment, teaching and learning processes and tools and education and professional development of school personnel.
Five research groups mainly composed by the HRE Committee of UN system actors involved in HRE
went to different Ugandan regions to do a situation analysis on the current status of Human Rights
(HR) and life skills education in primary, post-primary and teacher training education institutions.
Conversations with students, teachers as well as the administration provided an overview of where
the country is at and what it is currently doing in HRE.
The idea of National Action Plans centers on the goal of encouraging change within each country according to the country's own circumstances. Thus, National Action Plans are concerned with mobilizing the will to change and developing appropriate mechanisms. The need to achieve this goal of universal values, equal opportunities, respect for diversity and non-discrimination was confirmed by the United Nations (UN) Member States in their belief that Human Rights Education (HRE) is essential to the realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms. | en_US |
