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10.
Calls upon States to take all necessary measures, including sufficient
budgetary allocations, to ensure accessible, inclusive, equitable and non-discriminatory
quality education, and to promote learning opportunities for all, paying particular attention
to girls, marginalized children, older persons, persons with disabilities and all vulnerable and
marginalized groups, including those affected by humanitarian emergencies and conflict
situations;
11.
Also calls upon States to continue to make efforts to strengthen the protection
of preschools, schools and universities against attacks, including by taking measures to deter
the military use of schools, and encourages efforts to provide safe, inclusive and enabling
learning environments and quality education for all within an appropriate time frame,
including all levels of education in the context of humanitarian emergencies and conflict
situations;
12.
Stresses the importance of international cooperation, including the exchange
of good practices, and of technical cooperation, capacity-building, financial assistance and
technology transfer on mutually agreed terms in facilitating the realization of the right to
education, including through the strategic and adapted use of information and
communications technology;
13.
Encourages all States to measure progress in the realization of the right to
education, such as by developing national indicators as an important tool for the realization
of the right to education and for policy formulation, impact assessment and transparency;
14.
Calls upon States to accelerate efforts to eliminate gender-based discrimination
and all forms of violence, including sexual harassment, school-related sexual and genderbased violence, and bullying of children in schools and other educational settings, and to
realize gender equality and the right to education for all;
15.
Encourages States to consider justiciability when determining the best way to
give domestic legal effect to the right to education;
16.
Acknowledges the role that communications procedures can play to promote
the justiciability of the right to education, and in this regard calls upon all States that have
not yet signed and ratified the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights to consider doing so as a matter of priority;
17.
Encourages the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the
treaty bodies, the special procedures of the Human Rights Council and other relevant United
Nations bodies and mechanisms, specialized agencies, funds and programmes, within their
respective mandates, to continue their efforts to promote the full realization of the right to
education worldwide and to enhance their cooperation in this regard, including by enhancing
technical assistance to Governments;
18.
Commends the contribution of national human rights institutions, civil society,
including non-governmental organizations, and parliamentarians to the realization of the
right to education, including through cooperation with the Special Rapporteur;
19.
Decides to remain seized of the matter.
39th meeting
11 July 2019
[Adopted without a vote.]
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