A/HRC/RES/38/9
Reiterating the commitments to strengthen the means of implementation, including
Goal 17 of the Sustainable Development Goals and the commitments under each Goal, and
the actions outlined in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International
Conference on Financing for Development for ensuring the full realization of the
Sustainable Development Goals,
Reiterating also the importance of early childhood development as a valuable
foundation of the entire basic education system,
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, the fact that a large proportion of the
world’s out-of-school population lives in conflict-affected areas, and that crises, violence
and attacks on and the military use of 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, discrimination based on race, colour, language, religion, political or other
opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status, early marriage or
pregnancy, the lack of appropriate sanitary facilities, gender stereotypes, patriarchal social
norms, and 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, the development by experts of guiding principles and tools for States,
and ensuring justiciability of this right, and aware of the role that communications
procedures can play in promoting the justiciability of the right to education,
1.
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)
Reviewing national education governance systems, which include the laws,
policies, institutions, administrative procedures and practices, monitoring and
accountability mechanisms, and judicial procedures relating to the right to education, in
accordance with their obligations under international human rights law and remaining
consistent with the commitments undertaken by all States in the Sustainable Development
Goals;
(b)
Applying the principles of transparency, accountability and nondiscrimination in national and local education governance and management structures, inter
alia, by ensuring that governance structures and practices are accessible to the public and
are verifiable;
(c)
Promoting inclusive participation in education governance mechanisms and
procedures, inter alia, by facilitating the inclusion in and engagement of teachers, parents
and local authorities, students and other stakeholders in the education governance system;
(d)
Promoting human rights training for all actors and stakeholders in education
governance systems, addressing national education and training programmes, and ensuring
that the components and processes of education governance and management, including
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