United Nations
A/RES/69/141
General Assembly
Distr.: General
22 January 2015
Sixty-ninth session
Agenda item 26 (d)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2014
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/69/480)]
69/141. Literacy for life: shaping future agendas
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 56/116 of 19 December 2001, by which it proclaimed
the 10-year period beginning on 1 January 2003 the United Nations Literacy
Decade, its resolution 57/166 of 18 December 2002, in which it welcomed the
International Plan of Action for the United Nations Literacy Decade, 1 and its
resolutions 59/149 of 20 December 2004, 61/140 of 19 December 2006, 63/154 of
18 December 2008, 65/183 of 21 December 2010 and 68/132 of 18 December 2013,
Recalling also the United Nations Millennium Declaration,2 in which Member
States resolved to ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike,
would be able to complete a full course of primary schooling and that girls and boys
would have equal access to all levels of education, which requires a renewed
commitment to promote literacy for all,
Reaffirming the Education for All goals, in particular goal 3, on ensuring that
the learning needs of all young people and adults are met through equitable access
to appropriate learning and life-skills programmes, and goal 4, on achieving a
50 per cent improvement in levels of adult literacy by 2015, especially for women,
and equitable access to basic and continuing education for all adults,
Convinced that literacy is crucial to the acquisition by every child, young
person and adult of the essential life skills that will enable them to address the
challenges that they may face in life and represents an essential condition of lifelong
learning, which is an indispensable means for effective participation in the
knowledge societies and economies of the twenty-first century,
Reaffirming the right of indigenous peoples to have non-discriminatory access
to all levels and forms of education provided by States, and recognizing the
importance of effective measures to promote access for indigenous individuals, in
particular children, to education in their own language, whenever possible, as
addressed in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,3
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1
See A/57/218 and Corr.1.
Resolution 55/2.
3
Resolution 61/295, annex.
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