A/HRC/RES/35/2
Welcoming the adoption by the General Assembly of the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development,1 which includes, inter alia, the Sustainable Development Goal of
ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning
opportunities for all,
Reiterating the commitment to strengthen the means of implementation, in
accordance with the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on
Financing for Development,2 for ensuring the full realization of the Sustainable
Development Goals, and in this context welcoming the adoption of the Education 2030
Framework For Action, which aims to mobilize all countries and partners and to provide
guidance for achieving Goal 4 on education and its targets,
Strongly condemning the recurring attacks on students, teachers, schools and
universities, which impair the realization of the right to education and cause severe and
long-lasting harm to individuals and societies,
Recognizing the negative impact of climate change, natural disasters, conflict and
crisis on the full realization of the right to education, that a large proportion of the world’s
out-of-school population lives in conflict-affected areas, and that crises, violence and
attacks on educational institutions, natural disasters and pandemics continue to disrupt
education and development globally, as noted in the Incheon Declaration,
Recognizing also that girls are disproportionately represented among out-of-school
children and that women are disproportionately represented among illiterate adults, owing
to, inter alia, cultural or religious reasons, early marriage or pregnancy, or on economic
grounds when education is not free,
Reiterating the contribution that access to new information and communications
technology, including the Internet, plays in facilitating the realization of the right to
education and in promoting inclusive quality education,
Welcoming the steps taken to implement the right to education, such as the
enactment of appropriate legislation, adjudication by national courts, the development of
national indicators and ensuring justiciability, as appropriate, of this right, and aware of the
role that communications procedures can play in promoting the justiciability of the right to
education,
Recalling its resolutions 5/1, on institution-building of the Human Rights Council,
and 5/2, on the Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate Holders of the Council, of
18 June 2007, and stressing that the mandate holder shall discharge his or her duties in
accordance with those resolutions and the annexes thereto,
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Calls upon all States to take all measures to implement Human Rights
Council resolutions on the right to education with a view to ensuring the full realization of
this right for all;
2.
Urges all States to give full effect to the right to education by, inter alia,
complying with their obligations to respect, protect and fulfil the right to education by all
appropriate means, including by taking measures, such as:
(a)
Addressing issues of availability, accessibility, quality and equality in
education, including in non-formal education mechanisms and programmes, and in this
regard ensuring the access of adults to education;
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General Assembly resolution 70/1.
General Assembly resolution 69/313, annex.