A/HRC/RES/32/22
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
18 July 2016
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-second session
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 1 July 2016
32/22.
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 29/7 of
2 July 2015, and the resolutions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights on the
subject,
Reaffirming also 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 Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and
Members of Their Families, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and
the Convention against Discrimination in Education of the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization, and other relevant international instruments,
Bearing in mind the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and
Training and the World Programme for Human Rights Education,
Welcoming the progress made in achieving the Education for All goals and the
related Millennium Development Goals, while recognizing the need to accelerate efforts to
complete the unfinished agenda of the Millennium Development Goals,
Recalling the Incheon Declaration: Education 2030: Towards inclusive and equitable
quality education and lifelong learning for all,1 adopted at the World Education Forum
2015, held in Incheon, Republic of Korea,
Welcoming the adoption by the General Assembly of the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development,2 which includes the goal of ensuring inclusive and equitable
quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all,
1
General Assembly resolution 70/135, para. 32.
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