Education for democracy
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Recalling that the Sustainable Development Goals and targets, as set out in the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 9 are integrated and indivisible and
balance the three dimensions of sustainable development, and acknowledging the
importance of taking measures to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education
and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all, as well as the need to promote
peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to
justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels,
Stressing the complementarity and mutual reinforcement of human rights
education, training and learning and education for democracy,
Reaffirming that democracy is a universal value based on the freely expressed
will of people to determine their own political, economic, social and cultural
systems and their full participation in all aspects of their lives, 10
Taking note of the Incheon Declaration: Education 2030: Towards inclusive
and equitable quality education and lifelong learning for all, adopted at the World
Education Forum 2015, held in Incheon, Republic of Korea, from 19 to 22 May 2015,
which affirmed the understanding of education as a main driver of development that is
essential for peace, tolerance, human fulfilment and sustainable development, as well
as key to achieving full employment and poverty eradication,
Taking note also of the Global Education Monitoring Report 2016, which
monitors progress towards the education targets within the new Sustainable
Development Goals framework, and affirming that education can encourage
constructive and inclusive political participation,
Recognizing that, while democracies share common features, there is no single
model of democracy and that democracy does not belong to any cou ntry or region,
Mindful of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action of the World
Conference on Human Rights, 11 the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women, 12 the World Plan of Action on
Education for Human Rights and Democracy adopted by the International Congress
on Education for Human Rights and Democracy, 13 the World Programme for Human
Rights Education proclaimed by the General Assembly in its resolution 59/113 A of
10 December 2004 and the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education
and Training, 14
Recalling the establishment of the United Nations Democracy Fund and the
efforts of the Fund to advance the United Nations democracy agenda, as w ell as the
operational activities in support of democratization processes carried out by the
United Nations system, including by the Department of Political Affairs of the
Secretariat, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
and the United Nations Development Programme,
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Resolution 70/1.
Resolution 60/1, para. 135.
11
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
12
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
13
A/CONF.157/PC/42/Add.6.
14
Resolution 66/137, annex.
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