Pledge to join RCE Quality Assurance System

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This is the proposed Pledge for educational environments committing to participate in the RCE Quality Assurance System.

Draft Pledge for RCE Quality Assurance System

I/We Pledge to take progressive measures to fundamentally rework all practices of education to ensure they are consistent with human rights values and principles, especially the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, as called for in the Declaration of Child Rights-Centric Education (2024).

Furthermore, expanding the provisions of the "Revised draft plan of action for the first phase (2005-2007) of the World Programme for Human Rights Education" approved by the United Nations General Assembly in 2005 to be applicable to all educational environments (not only schools), I/We Pledge to

1. Publish a code of conduct for an environment free of violence, sexual abuse, harassment and corporal punishments, including procedures for resolving conflicts and dealing with violence and bullying;
2. Provide opportunities for Children for self-expression, responsibilities and participation in decision-making, in accordance with their age and evolving capacity;
3. Provide opportunities for Children to organize their own activities, for representing, mediating and advocating their interests;
4. Periodically Report, preferably annually but no later than 24 months from the date of My/Our last Report, to the Rights-Centric Education Network (a voluntary network of individual and organisational Child Rights Defenders supporting the implementation of the Declaration of Child Rights-Centric Education)
   1. The extent to which Child Rights are currently Respected and Fulfilled in the Educational environment I/We have responsibility for; and
   2. An evaluation of the steps taken towards Respecting and Fulfilling Rights since the last Report (or, in the case of the first Report, all steps taken in the past); and
   3. A plan outlining the steps to be taken before the next Report.

See also

RCE QAS Participants