Rights of the child 2016, para. 59

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Calls upon all States to give full effect to the right to education for all children, including migrant children, by taking all appropriate measures to eliminate obstacles to effectively accessing and completing education, such as the cost of education, hunger and poor nutrition, distance from home to school, the institutionalization of children, armed conflicts, all forms of violence in school, insufficient infrastructure, including lack of access to water and sanitation, the lack of adequate and physically and otherwise accessible schooling facilities for girls and children with disabilities, including access to adequate sanitation, and child labour or heavy domestic work, and to ensure that children who are institutionalized also enjoy the right to education;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Humanitarian
  • Water & Sanitation
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Persons on the move
  • Persons with disabilities
Year
2016
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
UNGA resolution, Rights of the child (2016), A/RES/71/177, OP 59.
Paragraph info
OP
Paragraph number
59