Rights of the child 2000, para. 20c

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[Calls upon States:] To ensure that emphasis is given to the qualitative aspects of education, that the education of the child is carried out and that States parties develop and implement programmes for the education of the child, in accordance with articles 28 and 29 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and that education is directed, inter alia, to the development of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms and to the preparation of the child for a responsible life in a free society, in a spirit of understanding, peace, tolerance, gender equality and friendship among peoples, ethnic, national and religious groups, and persons of indigenous origin;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Ethnic minorities
Year
2000
Paragraph type
OP
Paragraph focus
Education
Paragraph info
OP
Paragraph number
20c