A/HRC/RES/29/7
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
22 July 2015
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-ninth session
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 2 July 2015
29/7.
The right to education
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming its resolution 8/4 of 18 June 2008 and recalling all other Human Rights
Council resolutions on the right to education, the most recent of which is resolution 26/17
of 26 June 2014, and the resolutions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights on the
subject,
Reaffirming the human right of everyone to education, which is enshrined in, inter
alia, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the International
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the International
Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and other relevant international
instruments,
Bearing in mind General Assembly resolution 69/268 of 5 March 2015 on education
for democracy,
Bearing in mind also the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education
and Training and the World Programme for Human Rights Education,
Welcoming the World Education Forum 2015, organized by the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in collaboration with the United Nations
Children’s’ Fund, the World Bank, the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations
Development Programme, UN-Women and the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees, held in Incheon, Republic of Korea, from 19 to 22 May 2015,
and the declaration “Education 2030: Towards inclusive and equitable quality education
and lifelong learning for all”, adopted at the Forum,
Deeply concerned at the ongoing problem of attacks on students, teachers, schools
and universities, which impairs the realization of the right to education and causes severe
and long-lasting harm to individuals and societies,
Recognizing the negative impact of conflict and crisis on the full realization of the
right to education, and that more than one third of the world’s 121 million school children
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