A/HRC/RES/26/17
the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications
procedure on 14 April 2014,
Welcoming the steps taken at the national level to implement the right to education,
including the enactment of appropriate legislation and adjudication by national courts,
Recalling its resolutions 5/1, on institution-building of the Human Rights Council,
and 5/2, on the Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate Holders of the Council, of
18 June 2007, and stressing that the mandate holder shall discharge his duties in accordance
with those resolutions and the annexes thereto,
1.
Calls upon all States to take all measures to implement Human Rights
Council resolutions on the right to education with a view to ensuring the full realization of
this right for all;
2.
Urges all States to give full effect to the right to education by, inter alia,
developing and applying assessment systems that are in compliance with international
human rights law, by such means as:
(a)
Promoting a holistic approach that respects and promotes human rights in the
assessment of student attainments;
(b)
education;
Establishing assessment mechanisms to help to ensure the quality of
(c)
education;
Developing or strengthening the capacity of teachers to foster quality
(d)
Promoting the use of educational curricula that are updated and in conformity
with international human rights law;
(e)
Developing innovative assessment mechanisms for technical and vocational
education and training programmes;
(f)
Support research programmes and studies on national assessments of student
attainments;
3.
Notes with appreciation:
(a)
The report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education on the
assessment of the educational attainment of students and the implementation of the right to
education;1
(b)
The work of the United Nations human rights treaty bodies and special
procedures in the promotion of the right to education;
(c)
The work undertaken by the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights in the promotion of the right to education at the country,
regional and headquarters levels;
(d)
The contribution of the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and other relevant bodies towards
attaining the goals of the Education for All agenda and education-related Millennium
Development Goals;
(e)
International initiatives aimed at discussing and advancing the education
agenda beyond 2015, while underlining the importance that the Open Working Group on
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A/HRC/26/27.