A/HRC/RES/41/16
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 July 2019
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-first session
24 June–12 July 2019
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 11 July 2019
41/16.
The right to education: follow-up to Human Rights Council resolution
8/4
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming 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, the International Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the International Convention on the
Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Convention against
Discrimination in Education of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization, and other relevant international instruments,
Reaffirming also Human Rights Council resolution 8/4 of 18 June 2008, and recalling
all its other resolutions on the right to education, the most recent of which is resolution 38/9
of 5 July 2018, and the resolutions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights on the
subject,
Bearing in mind the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and
Training and the World Programme for Human Rights Education, which both underline the
importance of human rights education as an integral part of the right to education,
Reaffirming the universal relevance of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
and the importance of education for reaching all Sustainable Development Goals, and also
the importance of ensuring the effective articulation of Goal 4 and the implementation of the
right to education,
Expressing concern that, in spite of the progress achieved in the implementation of
Sustainable Development Goal 4, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization, there are still 750 million adults who are not literate, two thirds
of whom are women, and 262 million children and youth who do not attend school, and that,
according to the United Nations Children’s Fund, 50 per cent of pre-primary-age children
around the world – at least 175 million – are not enrolled in pre-primary education,
Recalling the Incheon Declaration: Education 2030: Towards inclusive and equitable
quality education and lifelong learning for all, adopted at the World Education Forum 2015,
held in Incheon, Republic of Korea, which aims to mobilize all countries and partners and
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