A/HRC/RES/38/9
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
20 July 2018
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-eighth session
18 June–6 July 2018
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 5 July 2018
38/9.
The right to education: follow-up to Human Rights Council
resolution 8/4
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming the human right of everyone to education, which is enshrined in, inter
alia, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the International
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the International
Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their
Families, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Convention
against Discrimination in Education of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization, and other relevant international instruments,
Reaffirming also its resolution 8/4 of 18 June 2008, and recalling all other Human
Rights Council resolutions on the right to education, the most recent of which is resolution
35/2 of 22 June 2017, and the resolutions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights on
the subject,
Bearing in mind the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and
Training and the World Programme for Human Rights Education, which both underline the
importance of human rights education as an integral part of the right to education,
Welcoming the progress made in achieving the Education for All goals and the
related Sustainable Development Goals, including Goal 4 on ensuring inclusive and
equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all, while
recognizing the need to accelerate efforts to complete the unfinished agenda of the
Millennium Development Goals,
Recalling the Incheon Declaration: Education 2030: Towards inclusive and equitable
quality education and lifelong learning for all, adopted at the World Education Forum 2015,
held in Incheon, Republic of Korea, which aims to mobilize all countries and partners and
provide guidance on achieving the effective implementation of Sustainable Development
Goal 4 and meeting the related targets on education for all, including internally displaced
persons and refugees,
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