A/RES/71/8
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
17 November 2016
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 13
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 16 November 2016
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/71/L.10 and Add.1)]
71/8.
Education for democracy
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the Charter of the United Nations, including the principles and
purposes contained therein, and recognizing that human rights, the rule of law and
democracy are interlinked and mutually reinforcing and that they belong to the
universal and indivisible core values and principles of the United Nations,
Reaffirming also the right of everyone to education, which is enshrined in the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights, 2 the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 3 the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 4 the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 5 and in other relevant
instruments,
Recalling its resolutions 67/18 of 28 November 2012 and 69/268 of 5 March
2015 and the results of the plan of action for the second phase (2010 –2014) of the
World Programme for Human Rights Education, 6 and taking note with appreciation
of the plan of action for the third phase (2015–2019) of the World Programme, 7
Taking note of section VII, entitled “Supporting the global citizenship agenda
through education for democracy”, of resolution 1 adopted on 20 November 2013 by
the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization at its thirty-seventh session, 8
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
4
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
5
Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.
6
Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/65/53/Add.1),
chap.II, resolution 15/11.
7
Ibid., Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigenda (A/69/53/Add.1 and Corr.1 and 2),
chap. IV, sect. A, resolution 27/12.
8
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Records of the General Conference,
Thirty-seventh session, Paris, 5–20 November 2013, vol. 1 and corrigendum, Resolutions, sect. IV.
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