A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/52/84 30 January 1998 Fifty-second session Agenda item 102 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Third Committee (A/52/634)] 52/84. Education for all The General Assembly, Recalling that in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,1 the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights2 and the Convention on the Rights of the Child3 the right of every individual to education is recognized as inalienable, Recalling also its resolutions 42/104 of 7 December 1987, by which it proclaimed 1990 as International Literacy Year, 44/127 of 15 December 1989, 46/93 of 16 December 1991 and 50/143 of 21 December 1995, in which it called for continuing international efforts to promote literacy, Recalling further its resolution 45/126 of 14 December 1990, in which it called for strengthening efforts towards the elimination of illiteracy of women of all ages, Mindful of the fact that eradication of illiteracy is one of the paramount objectives of the International Development Strategy for the Fourth United Nations Development Decade,4 Deeply concerned about the persistence of the gender gap in education which is reflected by the fact that nearly two thirds of the world's adult illiterates are women, 1 Resolution 217 A (III). 2 See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex. 3 Resolution 44/25, annex. 4 Resolution 45/199, annex. 98-76447 /...