A/RES/75/199
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
28 December 2020
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 14
Integrated and coordinated implementation of and
follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations
conferences and summits in the economic, social and
related fields
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 21 December 2020
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/75/L.46/Rev.1
and A/75/L.46/Rev.1/Add.1)]
75/199.
Education for democracy
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the Charter of the United Nations, including the principles and
purposes contained therein, and recognizing that human rights, the rule of law and
democracy are interlinked and mutually reinforcing and that they belong to the
universal and indivisible core values and principles of the United Nations,
Reaffirming also the right of everyone to education, which is enshrined in the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights, 2 the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 3 the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 4 the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 5 and other relevant instruments,
Recalling its resolutions 67/18 of 28 November 2012, 69/268 of 5 March 2015,
71/8 of 16 November 2016 and 73/134 of 13 December 2018 and the results of the
plan of action for the third phase (2015–2019) of the World Programme for Human
Rights Education, 6 recalling also Human Rights Council resolutions 39/3 of
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Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53A and
corrigenda (A/69/53/Add.1, A/69/53/Add.1/Corr.1 and A/69/53/Add.1/Corr.2), chap. IV, sect. A,
resolution 27/12.
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