A/HRC/RES/32/22
7.
Reaffirms the obligations and commitments to take steps, individually and
through international assistance and cooperation, especially economic and technical, to the
maximum of available resources, with a view to achieving progressively the full realization
of the right to education by all appropriate means, including in particular the adoption of
legislative measures;
8.
Calls upon States to take all necessary measures, including sufficient
budgetary allocations, to ensure inclusive, equitable and non-discriminatory quality
education, and to promote learning opportunities for all, paying particular attention to girls,
marginalized children and persons with disabilities;
9.
Stresses the importance of international cooperation, including the exchange
of good practices, and of technical cooperation, capacity-building, financial assistance and
technology transfer on mutually agreed terms in the realization of the right to education,
including through the use of information and communications technology;
10.
Calls upon States to continue to make efforts to strengthen the protection of
preschools, schools and universities against attacks;
11.
Encourages efforts to provide safe, inclusive and enabling learning
environments and quality education for all within an appropriate time frame, including
higher education in humanitarian emergencies and conflict situations;
12.
Encourages States to promote human rights education in accordance with the
United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training and the World
Programme for Human Rights Education as a means of contributing to the prevention of
human rights violations and conflict;
13.
Encourages all States to measure progress in the realization of the right to
education, such as by developing national indicators as an important tool for the realization
of the right to education and for policy formulation, impact assessment and transparency;
14.
Calls upon States to accelerate efforts to eliminate gender-based
discrimination and all forms of violence in schools and other educational settings, and to
realize gender equality and the right to education for all;
15.
Acknowledges the role that communications procedures can play to promote
the justiciability of the right to education, and in this regard calls upon all States that have
not yet signed and ratified the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to consider doing so as a matter of priority;
16.
Encourages the High Commissioner, the treaty bodies, the special procedures
of the Human Rights Council and other relevant United Nations bodies and mechanisms,
specialized agencies, funds and programmes, within their respective mandates, to continue
their efforts to promote the full realization of the right to education worldwide and to
enhance their cooperation in this regard, including by enhancing technical assistance to
Governments;
17.
Stresses the importance of the contribution of national human rights
institutions, civil society, including non-governmental organizations, and parliamentarians
to the realization of the right to education, including through cooperation with the Special
Rapporteur on the right to education;
18.
Decides to remain seized of the matter.
44th meeting
1 July 2016
[Adopted without a vote.]
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