A/68/294 20. On 15 and 16 July 2013, the Special Rapporteur attended the event “Educational visions for India: reflections on strategy and action”, organized by the Council for Social Development in New Delhi, India, and chaired and moderated the session on the right to education, emphasizing the importance of State obligations for the right to education under human rights law, as well as the right to education in the post-2015 development agenda. II. Recent developments with respect to the post-2015 development agenda 21. The right to education, as stipulated in Human Rights Council resolutions 8/4 and 17/3, encompasses the Education for All agenda as well as the Millennium Development Goals. Human Rights Council resolutions 20/7 and 23/4 further expand on the right to education. Resolution 20/7 gives expression to “the role that the full realization of the right to education plays in helping to achieve the Millennium Development Goals”. Resolution 23/4 reiterates this, and underlines “the need to ensure that the right to education is central in the context of the post-2015 development agenda”. 22. The central role of education in accelerating progress towards all the Millennium Development Goals is recognized as a result of commitments relating to education contained in the outcome document of the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals (resolution 65/1). That is critically important since, in spite of progress made, the Education for All agenda remains unfinished, and the progress towards the education-related Millennium Development Goals remains limited. 23. Some other landmark developments in recent years also give prominence to the right to education in that context. Recognizing the “inter-linkages between education and the advancement of all the other Millennium Development Goals”, the ministerial declaration resulting from the high-level segment of the substantive session of 2011 of the Economic and Social Council underlines “the need to promote the right to education and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, in particular the education-related goals, and the Education for All goals”. 2 24. Furthermore, recent high-level expert discussions on a human rights-based approach to the post-2015 development agenda have underlined the importance of the right to education for the empowerment of individuals and the full realization of all rights, including the right to development. 25. While participating in the events connected to the Education for All agenda and education-related Millennium Development Goals, the Special Rapporteur emphasized a human rights-based approach and the importance of linking States obligations on the right to education with political commitments. That is crucial in face of challenges posed by insufficient progress and persistent educational inequities among and within countries, resulting in marginalization and exclusion in education. In discussions led by UNESCO and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), it has become apparent that a human rights-based approach, with a __________________ 2 13-42277 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 3 (A/66/3/Rev.1), chap. III, sect. E. 7/26