A/74/243* United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 29 July 2019 Original: English Seventy-fourth session Item 72 (b) of the provisional agenda** Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms Right to education Note by the Secretary-General The Secretary-General has the honour to transmit to the General Assembly the report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Koumbou Boly Barry, submitted in accordance with Human Rights Council resolutions 8/4 and 26/17. In her report, the Special Rapporteur focuses on the ways in which the right to education contributes to the prevention of atrocity crimes and mass or grave violations of human rights. __________________ * Reissued for technical reasons on 26 September 2019. ** A/74/150. 19-12865* (E) 300919 *1912865*

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