A/HRC/RES/23/4
Mindful of the role that the full realization of the right to education for all plays in
helping to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, noting in this regard the
commitments relating to education contained in the outcome document of the High-level
Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals,
including to ensure quality education and progression through the school system, and the
need to ensure that the right to education is central in the context of the post-2015 agenda,
Aware of the role that communications procedures can play to promote the
justiciability of the right to education, and welcoming in this regard the entry into force of
the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights on 5 May 2013,
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.
Notes with appreciation:
(a)
The report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education on the
justiciability of the right to education;1
(b)
The work of the United Nations human rights treaty bodies and special
procedures in the promotion of the right to education;
(c)
The work undertaken by the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights in the promotion of the right to education at the country,
regional and headquarters levels;
(d)
The contribution of the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and other relevant bodies towards
attaining the Millennium Development Goals of achieving universal primary education and
eliminating gender disparity in education and the goals of the Education for All agenda;
(e)
International initiatives aimed at discussing and advancing the education
agenda beyond 2015, while underlining the importance that the Open Working Group on
Sustainable Development Goals and other ongoing consultation processes can have in this
regard;
3.
Calls upon all relevant stakeholders urgently to increase their efforts so that
the goals of the Education for All agenda can be achieved by 2015, and welcomes in this
regard the Education First initiative launched by the Secretary-General on 26 September
2012, including its three priority areas of putting every child in school, improving the
quality of education and fostering global citizenship;
4.
Urges all States to give full effect to the right to education by, inter alia,
promoting the justiciability of the right to education by such means as:
(a)
education;
The adoption of adequate legislation on the implementation of the right to
(b)
The creation or strengthening of appropriate independent institutions and
mechanisms to deal with complaints related to the right to education, stressing in this regard
the importance of the independence of such institutions, including the judiciary;
(c)
Ensuring full protection of the right to education, including as it regards the
responsibilities of private providers of education;
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A/HRC/23/35.