Summary 

The present report is submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 68/173 on the follow-up to the International Year of Human Rights Learning, in which the Assembly requested the Secretary-General to submit at its seventieth session a report on the implementation of the resolution. In the present report, the Secretary-General outlines human rights education, training and learning developments and activities in the follow-up to the International Year that were facilitated by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from July 2013 to June 2015, in particular in the context of the World Programme for Human Rights Education (2005-ongoing). United Nations initiatives such as the International Year, the World Programme and the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training represent the consensus of the international community on the key contribution of effective human rights education, training and learning to the realization of human rights.