A/HRC/RES/23/4
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 June 2013
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-third session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council∗
23/4.
The right to education: follow-up to Human Rights Council
resolution 8/4
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming Human Rights Council resolution 8/4 of 18 June 2008, and recalling all
other Council resolutions on the right to education, the most recent of which is resolution
20/7 of 5 July 2012, and the resolutions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights on
the subject,
Reaffirming also 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 and the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and other relevant international
instruments,
Bearing in mind General Assembly resolution 67/18 of 28 November 2012 on
education for democracy,
Deeply concerned that, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization, progress towards many of the Education for All goals set for 2015 is
slowing down, and that most of these goals are unlikely to be met, although progress in
some of the world’s poorest countries shows what can be achieved with the commitment of
national Governments and aid donors, including greater numbers of children attending preschool, completing primary school and making the transition to secondary education,
∗
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report
of the Council on its twenty-third session (A/HRC/23/2), chap. I.
GE.13-14880