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Sustainable Development Goals and other ongoing consultation processes can have in this
regard;
4.
Calls upon all relevant stakeholders urgently to increase their efforts to
accelerate progress towards attaining the education goals set for 2015, in particular the
goals of the Education for All agenda and education-related Millennium Development
Goals, and to ensure that the importance of quality education, including the achievement of
relevant learning outcomes, is taken fully into account in the elaboration of the post-2015
agenda;
5.
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;
6.
Strongly condemns attacks, including terrorist attacks, on educational
institutions as such, their students and staff, and recognizes the negative impact that such
attacks can have on the realization of the right to education, in particular of girls;
7.
Recognizes the importance of efforts towards the elaboration of relevant
guidelines to protect schools and universities from military use during armed conflict;
8.
Decides to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the right to
education for a period of three years;
9.
Requests the Special Rapporteur to take fully into account, in the discharge of
his mandate, all provisions of Human Rights Council resolutions on the right to education;
10.
Requests all States to continue to cooperate with the Special Rapporteur with
a view to facilitating his tasks in the discharge of his mandate, and to respond favourably to
his requests for information and visits;
11.
Requests the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner to provide all the
human and financial resources necessary for the effective fulfilment of the mandate by the
Special Rapporteur;
12.
Encourages the Office of the High Commissioner, the treaty bodies, the
special procedures of the Human Rights Council and other relevant United Nations bodies
and mechanisms, specialized agencies and programmes, within their respective mandates,
to continue their efforts to promote the realization of the right to education worldwide and
to enhance their cooperation in this regard, including by enhancing technical assistance to
Governments;
13.
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;
14.
Decides to remain seized of the matter.
38th meeting
26 June 2014
[Adopted without a vote.]
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