A/HRC/RES/35/2
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The contribution of the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the lead agency on Sustainable
Development Goal 4, and other relevant bodies towards attaining the goals of the Education
for All agenda and education-related Sustainable Development Goals;
7.
Calls upon States to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development,1 including Sustainable Development Goal 4, in order to ensure inclusive and
equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning for all;
8.
Decides to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the right to
education for a period of three years;
9.
Requests the Special Rapporteur to take fully into account, in the discharge of
her mandate, all provisions of Human Rights Council resolutions on the right to education
and to apply a gender perspective to her work;
10.
Requests all States to continue to cooperate with the Special Rapporteur with
a view to facilitating her tasks in the discharge of her mandate, and to respond favourably to
her requests for information and visits;
11.
Requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights to provide all the human and financial resources necessary for the
effective fulfilment of the mandate by the Special Rapporteur;
12.
Reaffirms the obligations and commitments to take steps, individually and
through international assistance and cooperation, especially economic and technical, to the
maximum of available resources, with a view to achieving progressively the full realization
of the right to education by all appropriate means, including in particular the adoption of
legislative measures;
13.
Calls upon States to take all necessary measures, including sufficient
budgetary allocations, to ensure inclusive, equitable and non-discriminatory quality
education, and to promote learning opportunities for all, paying particular attention to girls,
marginalized children, older persons, persons with disabilities and persons with low
qualifications;
14.
Stresses the importance of international cooperation, including the exchange
of good practices, and of technical cooperation, capacity-building, financial assistance and
technology transfer on mutually agreed terms in the realization of the right to education,
including through the use of information and communications technology;
15.
Calls upon States to continue to make efforts to strengthen the protection of
preschools, schools and universities against attacks, and encourages efforts to provide safe,
inclusive and enabling learning environments and quality education for all within an
appropriate time frame, including higher education in humanitarian emergencies and
conflict situations;
16.
Encourages all States to measure progress in the realization of the right to
education, such as by developing national indicators as an important tool for the realization
of the right to education and for policy formulation, impact assessment and transparency;
17.
Calls upon States to accelerate efforts to eliminate gender-based
discrimination and all forms of violence, including bullying of children, in schools and
other educational settings, such as school-related gender-based violence, and to realize
gender equality and the right to education for all;
18.
Encourages States to consider justiciability when determining the best way to
give domestic legal effect to the right to education;
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