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Rights of the child (2016), para. 086
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- (a) To eliminate gender disparities in education and to ensure effective and equal access to inclusive and equitable quality education, including vocational training, at all levels for all children without discrimination of any kind, particularly the vulnerable, including indigenous children, as well as children with disabilities and children in vulnerable or marginalized situations;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Literacy for life: shaping future agendas (2014), para. 16
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- 5. Encourages Member States, their development partners and the specialized agencies and other organizations of the United Nations system, as appropriate, to sustain and expand the gains achieved during the Decade through additional technical and financial support and to promote literacy and literate environments through multi-pronged approaches, with a focus on marginalized groups or those in vulnerable situations, in particular girls and women, people living in rural areas and persons with disabilities, including by utilizing innovative information and communications technology solutions, bearing in mind that the target date of 2015 for the achievement of the Education for All goals and the Millennium Development Goals is approaching;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The work and employment of persons with disabilities (2013), para. 41
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- 16. Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare a study on the right of persons with disabilities to education, in consultation with States and other relevant stakeholders, including the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, regional organizations, the Special Rapporteur on Disabilities of the Commission for Social Development, civil society organizations, including organizations of persons with disabilities, and national human rights institutions, and requests that the study be made available on the website of the Office of the High Commissioner, in an accessible format, prior to the twenty-fifth session of the Human Rights Council;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Rights of the child (2008), para. 047
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- 25. Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education, 19F 20 which is devoted to the right to inclusive education of persons with disabilities, and in this context calls upon States to consider carefully the recommendations contained therein, namely, to take steps towards ensuring an effective inclusive education system;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (2010), para. 067
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- 31. Competent authorities and others concerned are also encouraged to make use of the present Guidelines, as applicable, at boarding schools, hospitals, centres for children with mental and physical disabilities or other special needs, camps, the workplace and other places which may be responsible for the care of children.
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Sport as an enabler of sustainable development (2018), para. 37
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- 8. Encourages the relevant stakeholders to emphasize and advance the use of sport as a vehicle to foster sustainable development and, inter alia, strengthen education, including physical education, for children and young persons, including persons with disabilities, promote health, prevent disease, including non-communicable diseases, and drug abuse, realize gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, foster inclusion and well-being, promote healthy and active ageing, ensure the participation of everyone without discrimination of any kind, promote tolerance, mutual understanding and respect and facilitate social inclusion, conflict prevention and peacebuilding;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Promoting social integration through social inclusion (2014), para. 20
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- 4. Stresses the importance of eradicating illiteracy and promoting equal access to and opportunities for quality education for all, inclusive education, especially for persons with disabilities, skills development and quality training as essential means for inclusive participation and integration in society;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Rights of the child (2004), para. 053
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- (a) To recognize the right to education on the basis of equal opportunity by making primary education compulsory and available free to all, without discrimination, by ensuring that all children, including girls, children in need of special protection, children with disabilities, indigenous children, children belonging to minorities and children from different ethnic origins, have access without discrimination to education of good quality, as well as by making secondary education generally available and accessible to all, in particular by the progressive introduction of free education, bearing in mind that special measures to ensure equal access, including affirmative action, contribute to achieving equal opportunity and combating exclusion, and to ensure that the education of the child is carried out and States parties develop and implement programmes for the education of the child in accordance with articles 28 and 29 of the Convention;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Outcome document of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the realization of the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities: the way forward, a disability- inclusive development agenda towards 2015 and beyond (2014), para. 16
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- (g) Encourage Member States to take sustainable measures to ensure equal access to full and productive employment and decent work on an equal basis and without discrimination to persons with disabilities, including by promoting access to inclusive education systems, skills development and vocational and entrepreneurial training, in order to enable persons with disabilities to attain and maintain maximum independence;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons: realizing the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities (2008), para. 18
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- (c) Ensuring an adequate standard of living and social protection for persons with disabilities, including through access to poverty and hunger eradication programmes, inclusive quality education, in particular free and compulsory primary education and secondary education, as well as the same range, quality and standard of free or affordable health care as provided to other persons, and the promotion of full employment and decent work for all;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto: situation of women and girls with disabilities (2018), para. 37
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- (d) Ensuring that women and girls with disabilities and their families have access to a range of support services, information in accessible formats and education on how to prevent, recognize and report instances of exploitation, violence and abuse against women and girls with disabilities, as well as how to ensure that children with disabilities have a safe and supportive family environment;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (2009), para. 42
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- 29. Reaffirms that social integration policies should seek to reduce inequalities, promote access to basic social services, education for all and health care, increase the participation and integration of social groups, particularly youth, older persons and persons with disabilities, and address the challenges posed by globalization and market-driven reforms to social development in order for all people in all countries to benefit from globalization;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The right to education: follow-up to Human Rights Council resolution 8/4 (2018), para. 32
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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;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (2013), para. 53
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- 32. Reaffirms that social integration policies should seek to reduce inequalities, promote access to basic social services, education for all and health care, eliminate discrimination, increase the participation and integration of social groups, particularly young people, older persons and persons with disabilities, and address the challenges posed to social development by globalization and market-driven reforms in order for all people in all countries to benefit from globalization;
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in humanitarian situations (2018), para. 37
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- 21. Calls upon States to respect, protect and fulfil the right of all children to education, including through increased emphasis on inclusive and quality education, and to promote school enrolment and retention among girls and children in vulnerable situations, such as children with disabilities, including in secondary school;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Entrepreneurship for sustainable development (2019), para. 54
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- 26. Encourages Governments and all sectors of society to take sustainable measures to achieve full and productive employment and decent work for persons with disabilities, on an equal basis and without discrimination on the basis of gender and disability, including by promoting access to inclusive education systems, skills development and vocational and entrepreneurial training, in order to enable persons with disabilities to attain and maintain maximum independence, notes that further efforts are needed to increase awareness of the ability of persons with disabilities to innovate and contribute to the achievement of sustainable development through entrepreneurship, and in this regard calls upon all stakeholders to establish research on policy support for entrepreneurs with disabilities and collect data in order to develop or improve programmes, taking into account their capabilities, skills, socioeconomic status and other personal characteristics;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Promoting awareness, understanding and the application of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights through sport and the Olympic ideal (2011), para. 13
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- Recalling General Assembly resolution 65/4 of 18 October 2010, on sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace, in which the Assembly emphasized and encouraged the use of sport as a vehicle to foster development and strengthen education for children and young persons; prevent disease and promote health, including the prevention of drug abuse; empower girls and women; foster the inclusion and well-being of persons with disabilities; and facilitate social inclusion, conflict prevention and peacebuilding,
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Rights of the child: empowering children with disabilities for the enjoyment of their human rights, including through inclusive education (2019), para. 44
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- 25. Calls upon States, in line with their commitments under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to leave no one behind, to take immediate and effective steps to eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for all children at risk of being left behind, including children with disabilities, as well as to build and upgrade education, water, sanitation and hygiene facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all, and to ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including through human rights education, the promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of the contribution of culture to sustainable development;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace (2017), para. 38
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- 9. Encourages the stakeholders referred to in paragraph 4 above to emphasize and advance the use of sport as a vehicle to foster sustainable development, strengthen education, including physical education, for children and young persons, including persons with disabilities, promote health, prevent disease, including non-communicable diseases, and drug abuse, realize gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, foster inclusion and well-being, ensure the participation of everyone without discrimination of any kind, promote tolerance, mutual understanding and respect and facilitate social inclusion, conflict prevention and peacebuilding;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Literacy for life: shaping future agendas (2019), para. 14
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- Concerned that, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, one third of the children not attending school are children with disabilities and that the literacy rate among adults with disabilities is as low as 3 per cent in some countries,
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Rights of the child (2005), para. 064
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- 31. Also calls upon all States to take the necessary measures to ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by children with disabilities in both the public and the private spheres, including access to good quality education and health care and protection from violence, abuse and neglect, and to develop and, where it already exists, to enforce legislation to prohibit discrimination against them to ensure their dignity, promote their self-reliance and facilitate their active participation and integration in the community, taking into account the particularly difficult situation of children with disabilities living in poverty;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Global health and foreign policy: an inclusive approach to strengthening health systems (2020), para. 60
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- 15. Calls upon Member States to develop evidence-based training that is sensitive to different cultures and the specific needs of women, children and persons with disabilities, skills enhancement and education of health workers, including midwives and community health workers, as well as promote a continued education and lifelong learning agenda and expand community-based health education and training in order to provide quality care for people throughout the life course;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Inclusive development for persons with disabilities (2017), para. 42
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- 18. Also urges Member States, at the local, regional and national levels, to improve road safety for persons with disabilities and to integrate road safety into sustainable mobility and transport infrastructure planning and design in ci ties and other human settlements;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The right to education: follow-up to Human Rights Council resolution 8/4 (2019), para. 34
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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;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto: accessibility (2020), para. 12
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- Welcoming further the observance of international disability-related days, including “World Autism Awareness Day” on 2 April 2019 on the theme “Assistive technologies, active participation”, which promoted accessibility for persons on the autism spectrum to affordable assistive technologies in order to eliminate the barriers to their participation on an equal basis with others, as well as the observance of World Down Syndrome Day on 21 March 2019 on the theme “Leave no one behind in education”, which focused on inclusive and accessible education,
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Rights of the child: empowering children with disabilities for the enjoyment of their human rights, including through inclusive education (2019), para. 11
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- Recognizing that global estimates for the number of children with disabilities range from 93 million to 150 million, and deeply concerned about barriers that impede access to inclusive education for children with disabilities and that a significant percentage are either out of school or in school but not learning properly owing to a lack of access to accessible learning materials, inclusive curricula, teacher support and assistive devices, making children with disabilities, especially girls with disabilities, one of the most marginalized and excluded groups with regard to education,
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The work and employment of persons with disabilities (2013), para. 26
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- (h) Ensuring also that persons with disabilities have equal access to education and vocational training that is non-discriminatory, accessible to and inclusive of persons with disabilities, including by providing reasonable accommodation, and by promoting continuous learning;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Inclusive development for and with persons with disabilities (2019), para. 55
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- 24. Urges Member States, at the local, regional and national levels, to improve road safety for persons with disabilities and to integrate road safety into sustainable mobility and transport infrastructure planning and design in cities and other human settlements;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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United Nations Literacy Decade: education for all (2011), para. 33
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- 16. Requests all relevant entities of the United Nations system, in particular the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, in cooperation with national Governments, to take immediate, concrete steps to address the needs of countries with high illiteracy rates and/or with large populations of illiterate adults, with particular regard to women and persons with disabilities, including through programmes that promote low-cost and effective literacy provisions;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education (1996), para. 07
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- Convinced also that human rights education contributes to a concept of development consistent with the dignity of women and men of all ages that takes into account the diverse segments of society such as children, indigenous people, minorities and disabled persons,
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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