A/HRC/RES/54/5
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
13 October 2023
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-fourth session
11 September–13 October 2023
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 11 October 2023
54/5.
Ensuring quality education for peace and tolerance for every child
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Recognizing that education shall be directed to the full development of the human
personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms,
as well as to the promotion of understanding, peace, gender equality and friendship among
all people, ethnic, national, religious and linguistic minorities and Indigenous Peoples, and
recalling in that regard the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child
and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,
Recalling the Convention against Discrimination in Education of the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and its Recommendation concerning
Education for International Understanding, Cooperation and Peace and Education relating to
Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights
Education and Training and the Declaration of Principles on Tolerance of the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization,
Recalling also the proclamation by the General Assembly in its resolution 59/113 of
10 December 2004 of the World Programme for Human Rights Education, structured in
consecutive five-year phases, in order to advance implementation of human rights education
programmes in all sectors, including for children,
Reaffirming that the human rights principles of non-discrimination and equality are
central to the full realization of the right to education as enshrined in the Convention against
Discrimination in Education of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and
emphasizing that everyone is entitled to the right to education without discrimination of any
kind,
Recognizing the fundamental contribution of the enjoyment of the right to education
to the achievement of peace and security, acknowledging that investment in universal, free,
accessible, equitable and inclusive quality education and training is an important investment
that States should make to ensure the immediate and long-term development of children, and
GE.23-19773(E)