Human Rights Council
Eleventh Session
Resolution 11/6.
The right to education: follow-up to Human Rights Council
resolution 8/4
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming its resolution 8/4 of 18 June 2008, and recalling the resolutions adopted by the
Commission on Human Rights on the right to education,
Reaffirming also that everyone should enjoy the human right to education, which is
enshrined in, inter alia, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant
on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention
on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and other relevant international instruments,
Mindful of recent significant developments and remaining challenges in the promotion and
protection of economic, social and cultural rights at the national, regional and international
levels,
Deeply concerned that, on current trends, some key goals of the Education for All initiative
agreed upon at the World Education Forum, held in Dakar in April 2000, will not be achieved by
2015, including the goal of universal primary education, despite progress made in recent years
towards achieving such goals,
1.
Calls upon all States to take all measures to implement Council resolution 8/4 with a
view to ensuring the full realization of the right to education for all;
2.
Welcomes the work of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education, in particular
his report on the right to education of persons in detention in the criminal justice system
(A/HRC/11/8);
3.
Also welcomes the work of the United Nations treaty bodies in the promotion of the
right to education, and notes with interest the holding, by the Committee on the Rights of the
Child, of a general discussion day on the theme “The right of the child to education in
emergency situations”;
4.
Further welcomes the contribution of the United Nations Children’s Fund and that of
the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization towards attaining the
Millennium Development Goals of achieving universal primary education and eliminating
gender disparity in education and the goals of the Education for All initiative, agreed upon at the
World Education Forum;
5.
Welcomes the convening by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization of four major conferences on education in 2008 and 2009, including