A/RES/75/155
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 December 2020
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 27 (c)
Social development: literacy for life: shaping
future agendas
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 16 December 2020
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/75/470, para. 26)]
75/155.
Literacy for life: shaping future agendas
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 56/116 of 19 December 2001, by which it proclaimed
the 10-year period beginning on 1 January 2003 the United Nations Literacy Decade,
its resolution 57/166 of 18 December 2002, in which it welcomed the Internati onal
Plan of Action for the United Nations Literacy Decade, 1 and its resolutions 59/149 of
20 December 2004, 61/140 of 19 December 2006, 63/154 of 18 December 2008,
65/183 of 21 December 2010, 68/132 of 18 December 2013, 69/141 of 18 December
2014, 71/166 of 19 December 2016 and 73/145 of 17 December 2018,
Recalling also the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 2 which includes
Sustainable Development Goal 4 on ensuring inclusive and equitable quality
education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all, with a specific target
on ensuring that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women,
achieve literacy and numeracy by 2030,
Convinced that literacy is crucial to the acquisition by every child, young person
and adult of the essential knowledge, skills and competencies that will enable them
to address the challenges that they may face in life and represents an essential
condition of lifelong learning, which is an indispensable means for effective
participation in the knowledge societies and economies of the twenty -first century,
and to promote inclusive and equitable societies,
Reaffirming the right of indigenous peoples to have non-discriminatory access
to all levels and forms of education provided by States, and recognizing the
importance of effective measures to promote access for indigenous individuals, in
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See A/57/218 and A/57/218/Corr.1.
Resolution 70/1.
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