A/HRC/RES/32/20
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
18 July 2016
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-second session
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 1 July 2016
32/20.
Realizing the equal enjoyment of the right to education by
every girl
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the principles and purposes of the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling in particular the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and all other relevant international
human rights instruments,
Recalling all relevant Human Rights Council resolutions, in particular resolution
27/6 of 25 September 2014,
Recalling also the United Nations Millennium Declaration, in which Member States
resolved to ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, would be able
to complete a full course of primary schooling, and that girls and boys would have equal
access to all levels of education, in accordance with the Education for All agenda and
education-related Millennium Development Goals, and welcoming the adoption by the
General Assembly of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 1 including its Goal 4
on ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning
opportunities for all,
Recalling further the need to ensure that all girls and boys have equal access to
quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready
for primary education, the need to eliminate gender disparities in education by 2030, and
the need to build and upgrade education facilities that are child, disability and gender
sensitive and provide safe, non-violent, inclusive, accessible and effective learning
environments for all,
Welcoming the World Education Forum 2015, organized by the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in collaboration with the United Nations
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General Assembly resolution 70/1.
GE.16-12302(E)