UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, has played a key role in the development, implementation and evaluation of HRE initiatives around the globe for many years. For example:

• It has developed frameworks and guidelines to assist educators in human rights education, citizenship education, intercultural education and other related fields. Of particular note is A Human Rights-Based Approach to Education for All: a framework for the realization of children’s right to education and rights within education.
• It works closely with UNICEF to support member states in realising the right to education, including doing so through awareness-raising campaigns and training programmes. 
• It offers technical assistance in mainstreaming human rights education and advocates for the inclusion of human rights principles and values within the education.

Education 2030 

UNESCO has also been engaged in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). It is now leading and co-ordinating its follow-up, the Global Action Programme on ESD. 

In 2015, at the World Education Forum, the Incheon Declaration for Education 2030 announced that: 

Our vision is to transform lives through education, recognizing the important role of education as a main driver of development and in achieving the other proposed SDGs [Sustainable Development Goals]. We commit with a sense of urgency to a single, renewed education agenda that is holistic, ambitious and aspirational, leaving no one behind.