Implementation of Commitments
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Copenhagen 1990
(5) [The participating States] solemnly declare that among those elements of justice
which are essential to the full expression of the inherent dignity and of the equal and
inalienable rights of all human beings are the following:
(…)
(5.21) - in order to supplement domestic remedies and better to ensure that the participating States respect the international obligations they have undertaken, the participating States will consider acceding to a regional or global international convention concerning the protection of human rights, such as the European Convention on Human
Rights or the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights, which provide for procedures of individual recourse to international bodies.
Moscow 1991
(42) The participating States
(42.1) - affirm that human rights education is fundamental and that it is therefore essential that their citizens are educated on human rights and fundamental freedoms and the
commitment to respect such rights and freedoms in domestic legislation and international instruments to which they may be parties;
(42.2) - recognize that effective human rights education contributes to combating intolerance, religious, racial and ethnic prejudice and hatred, including against Roma, xenophobia and anti-semitism;
(42.3) - will encourage their competent authorities responsible for education programmes to design effective human rights related curricula and courses for students
at all levels, particularly students of law, administration and social sciences as well as
those attending military, police and public service schools;
(42.4) - will make information on all CSCE human dimension provisions available to
their educators;
(42.5) - will encourage organizations and educational establishments to co-operate in
drawing up and exchanging human rights programmes at the national as well as the
international level;
(42.6) - will seek to ensure that activities undertaken with a view to promoting human
rights education in the broader sense take into account experience, programmes and
forms of co-operation within existing international governmental and non-governmental bodies, such as the United Nations and the Council of Europe.
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