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3.
Encourages States to increase investments and international cooperation to
allow all girls to complete free, equitable, inclusive and quality early childhood, primary
and secondary education, including by scaling-up and strengthening initiatives, such as the
Global Partnership for Education, and to explore additional innovative mechanisms based
on models combining public and private resources, while ensuring that all education
providers give due respect to the right to education;
4.
Encourages international cooperation to complement the efforts of States in
matters relating to education, in particular with a view to eliminating discrimination in
education, and supports the efforts of the United Nations system in this regard;
5.
Urges States to support the efforts of developing countries, in particular least
developed countries, to realize progressively the right to education, including the
progressive realization of the equal enjoyment of the right to education by every girl
through appropriate resources, including financial and technical resources, in support of
country-led national education plans;
6.
Reaffirms the importance of enhancing the dialogue between the United
Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization, the Special Rapporteur on the right to education and other partners that
pursue the goals of girls’ education, with a view to integrating further the right to education
of girls into the operational activities of the United Nations system;
7.
Encourages the High Commissioner and the relevant special procedure
mandate holders to give the required attention to realizing the equal enjoyment of the right
to education by every girl in carrying out their mandates and in their reporting, and to work
collectively towards its realization through practical and efficient steps;
8.
Requests the High Commissioner, in close cooperation with all relevant
stakeholders, including States, the United Nations Children’s Fund, other relevant United
Nations bodies and agencies, relevant special procedure mandate holders, regional
organizations and human rights bodies, national human rights institutions and civil society,
including children themselves, to prepare a report on the realization of the equal enjoyment
of the right to education by every girl, and on the obstacles limiting the effective access of
girls to education, and to make recommendations on appropriate measures to eliminate
gender disparities in education by 2030, taking into account Goal 4 of the Sustainable
Development Goals, and to submit the report to the Council for its consideration at its
thirty-fifth session;
9.
Decides to remain seized of the matter.
44th meeting
1 July 2016
[Adopted without a vote.]
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