A/HRC/RES/17/3
Mindful of the role that the full realization of the right to education plays in helping
to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, and noting in this regard the commitments
relating to education contained in the outcome document of the High-level Plenary Meeting
of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals,1
Recalling Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1, on institution-building of the
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 8/4, 11/6 and 15/4 with a view to ensuring the full realization of the
right to education for all;
2.
Takes note with appreciation of:
(a)
The report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education on the
promotion of equality of opportunity in education;2
(b)
education;
The work of the United Nations treaty bodies in the promotion of the right to
(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 Millennium Development Goals of achieving universal primary education and
eliminating gender disparity in education and the goals of the Education for All agenda;
3.
Urges all relevant stakeholders to increase their efforts so that the goals of the
Education for All agenda can be achieved by 2015 by, inter alia, tackling persistent
economic and social inequalities, including on the basis of such factors as income, gender,
location, ethnicity, language and disability, and notes the role that good governance can
play in this regard;
4.
Urges all States to give full effect to the right to education by, inter alia,
promoting equality of opportunity in education in accordance with their human rights
obligations, including by:
(a)
enjoyment;
Ensuring adequate legal protection of the right to education and its equal
(b)
Addressing multiple forms of inequality and discrimination in education
through comprehensive policies;
(c)
Ensuring adequate resource allocation, including through the identification
and implementation of innovative financing mechanisms;
(d)
Supporting national mechanisms that promote the realization of the right to
education, such as national human rights institutions;
(e)
Increasing efforts to achieve the goals of the Education for All agenda and
the commitments relating to education contained in the Millennium Development Goals
and their review process, with a human rights-based approach;
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General Assembly resolution 65/1 of 22 September 2010.
A/HRC/17/29 and Corr.1.