United Nations
A/RES/65/183
General Assembly
Distr.: General
4 February 2011
Sixty-fifth session
Agenda item 27 (d)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2010
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/65/448)]
65/183. United Nations Literacy Decade: education for all
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 56/116 of 19 December 2001, by which it proclaimed
the ten-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
International 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 and 63/154
of 18 December 2008,
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Recalling also the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 2 in which Member
States resolved to ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike,
will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling and that girls and boys
will have equal access to all levels of education, which requires a renewed
commitment to promote literacy for all,
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Reaffirming the Education for All goals, in particular goal 3, on ensuring that
the learning needs of all young people and adults are met through equitable access
to appropriate learning and life-skills programmes, and goal 4, on achieving a
50 per cent improvement in levels of adult literacy by 2015, especially for women,
and equitable access to basic and continuing education for all adults,
Reaffirming also the emphasis placed by the 2005 World Summit on the
critical role of both formal and non-formal education in the achievement of poverty
eradication and other development goals as envisaged in the Millennium
Declaration, in particular basic education and training for achieving universal
literacy, and the need to strive for expanded secondary and higher education as well
as vocational education and technical training, especially for girls and women, the
creation of human resources and infrastructure capabilities and the empowerment of
those living in poverty,
Reaffirming further that quality basic education is crucial to nation-building,
that literacy for all is at the heart of basic education for all and that creating literate
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See A/57/218 and Corr.1.
See resolution 55/2.
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