A/HRC/RES/20/3
Reaffirming the human right of everyone to education, which is enshrined in, inter
alia, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and other relevant international instruments,
Reaffirming also the need for adequate financial resources so that everyone can
realize his or her right to education and the importance in this regard of national resource
mobilization and international cooperation,
Recalling the Global Forum on Migration and Development process, including the
debates on migratory mobility, which emphasize the importance of facilitating access to
regular forms of migration and, where applicable, to social services, including education,
that contribute to the strengthening of the personal development prospects and outcomes for
migrants and their families,
Concerned about the large and growing number of migrants, especially women and
children, who place themselves in a vulnerable situation by attempting to cross international
borders without the required travel documents, and recognizing the obligation of States to
respect the human rights of those migrants,
Considering that, in accordance with their international human rights obligations,
States are responsible for promoting and protecting human rights, including the right to
education, without discrimination,
Noting the observation of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education that
States’ obligations to ensure the provision of adequate resources to overcome constraints to
the realization of the right to education consistently figure in the concluding observations
adopted by the United Nations human rights treaty bodies, 1
Considering the need for all relevant stakeholders to achieve the goals of the
Education for All initiative2 as well as Millennium Development Goal 2, as contained in
the outcome document of the High-level Plenary Meeting of the sixty-fifth session of the
General Assembly,3 by, inter alia, tackling persistent economic and social inequalities,
including on the basis of such factors as income, gender, location, ethnicity, language and
disability, and noting the role that good governance can play in that regard,
Emphasizing the global character of the migratory phenomenon, the importance of
international, regional and bilateral cooperation and the need to protect the human rights of
migrants, particularly at a time when migration flows have increased in the globalized
economy and take place in a context of new security concerns,
Mindful of the fact that, in the fulfilment of their obligations to protect human rights,
States of origin, transit and destination can benefit from schemes of international
cooperation,
Mindful that migrant access to education may help to mitigate the risk of widening
inequalities in education,
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Reaffirms the duty of States to effectively promote and protect the human
rights and fundamental freedoms of all migrants, especially those of women and children,
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A/66/269, para. 8.
See United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Final Report of the World
Education Forum, Dakar, Senegal, 26-28 April 2000 (Paris, 2000).
General Assembly resolution 65/1.