A/HRC/RES/32/22
Reiterating the commitment to strengthen the means of implementation in order to
ensure the full realization of the Sustainable Development Goals, and in this context
welcoming the adoption of the Education 2030 Framework For Action, which aims at
mobilizing all countries and partners and provides guidance for achieving Sustainable
Development Goal 4 on education, and its targets,
Strongly condemning the recurring attacks on students, teachers, schools and
universities, which impair the realization of the right to education and cause 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 a large proportion of the world’s out-of-school population lives
in conflict-affected areas, as noted in the Incheon Declaration,
Deeply concerned that, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization, despite all efforts by Governments, civil society and the
international community and the tremendous progress achieved between 2000 and 2015,
the Education for All goals and the education-related Millennium Development Goals have
not been achieved globally,
Reiterating the contribution that access to new information and communications
technology, including the Internet, plays in facilitating the realization of the right to
education and in promoting inclusive quality education,
Recalling the Paris Open Educational Resources Declaration, adopted on 22 June
2012 at the World Open Educational Resources Congress of the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization,
Recognizing that factors such as the digital divide, disparities in access to the
Internet and other information and communications technology, infrastructure constraints,
marginalization and exclusion, and challenges relating to the quality and recognition of
degrees and diplomas can limit the utilization of the full potential of information and
communications technology in contributing to the realization of the right to education,
Welcoming the steps taken to implement the right to education, such as the
enactment of appropriate legislation, adjudication by national courts, the development of
national indicators and ensuring justiciability, as appropriate, of this right,
Aware of the role that communications procedures can play to promote the
justiciability of the right to education,
1.
Calls upon all States to take all measures to implement Human Rights
Council resolutions on the right to education with a view to ensuring the full realization of
this right for all;
2.
Urges all States to give full effect to the right to education by, inter alia,
complying with their obligations to respect, protect and fulfil the right to education by all
appropriate means, including by taking measures, such as:
(a)
Addressing issues of access, quality and equity in the use of information and
communications technology in education, including in order to bridge the digital divide;
(b)
Creating an enabling policy environment for drawing on digital technologies
that can serve as valuable tools in the delivery of education;
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General Assembly resolution 70/1.