A/RES/77/268
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
24 January 2023
Seventy-seventh session
Agenda item 13
Integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up
to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and
summits in the economic, social and related fields
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 18 January 2023
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/77/L.44)]
77/268.
Education for democracy
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the Charter of the United Nations, including the principles and
purposes contained therein, and recognizing that human rights, the rule of law and
democracy are interlinked and mutually reinforcing and that they belong to the
universal and indivisible core values and principles of the United Nations,
Reaffirming also the right of everyone to education, which is enshrined in the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights, 2 the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 3 the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 4 the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 5 and other relevant instruments,
Recalling its resolutions 67/18 of 28 November 2012, 69/268 of 5 March 2015,
71/8 of 16 November 2016, 73/134 of 13 December 2018 and 75/199 of 21 December
2020 and the results of the plan of action for the third phase (2015 –2019) of the World
Programme for Human Rights Education, 6 recalling also Human Rights Council
resolutions 39/3 of 27 September 2018 7 and 42/7 of 26 September 2019 8 on the World
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Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53A and
corrigenda (A/69/53/Add.1, A/69/53/Add.1/Corr.1 and A/69/53/Add.1/Corr.2), chap. IV, sect. A,
resolution 27/12.
Ibid., Seventy-third Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/73/53/Add.1), chap. III.
Ibid., Seventy-fourth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/74/53/Add.1), chap. III.
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