Decade for Human Rights Education

HC Deb 13 March 2002 vol 381 cc1133-4W

Dr. Starkey

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills when she last reported to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on UK activities in the framework of the Decade for Human Rights Education. [40526]

Margaret Hodge

My officials contributed to a report compiled by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in July 2000. This specifically mentions the contribution citizenship education will make from September 2002 and, in particular, that pupils will be taught about human rights as part of the national curriculum.