Human rights education is an essential contribution to the prevention of human rights abuses and represents an important investment to build a just, peaceful and sustainable future consistent with human rights principles. To confront today’s crises, human rights education is more important than ever.

Promising to rejuvenate the spirit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, heads of State and Government, civil society groups, youth, human rights defenders and others gathered in Geneva to craft a common vision for the future of human rights and to rejuvenate the spirit that led to the adoption of the Declaration.