International Human Rights Day

International Human Rights Day is marked every year on 10 December with activities led by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva , New York and at the field-presences.
 
With 2004 being the concluding year for the Decade on Human Rights Education and 2005 marking the commencement of a new World Programme for Human Rights Education, the High Commissioner in her role as the international coordinator of these programmes, has focused Human Rights Day commemorative activities in 2004 on Human Rights Education.
 
For more information on human rights education and related United Nations programmes, please visit the following websites:
 
http://www.ohchr.org/english/issues/education/training/index.htm

http://www.ohchr.org/english/about/publications/