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(d)
Considering and assessing the short- and long-term systemic impact of private
educational institutions with a view to evaluate the need for adjustments in regulations that
respond to such systemic impact;
3.
Also urges all States to expand educational opportunities for all, without
discrimination, including by implementing special programmes to address inequalities,
including barriers to accessibility and discrimination against women and girls in education,
recognizing the significant importance of investment in public education, to the maximum of
available resources; to increase and improve domestic and external financing for education,
as affirmed in the Incheon Declaration: Education 2030: Towards inclusive and equitable
quality education and lifelong learning for all and the Education 2030 Framework for Action;
to ensure that education policies and measures are consistent with human rights standards
and principles, including those laid down in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and
relevant international human rights instruments; and to strengthen engagement with all
relevant stakeholders, including communities, local actors and civil society, to contribute to
education as a public good;
4.
Further urges all States to regulate and monitor education providers and to
hold accountable those whose practices have a negative impact on the enjoyment of the right
to education, and to support research and awareness-raising activities to better understand the
wide-ranging impact of the commercialization of education on the enjoyment of the right to
education;
5.
Urges States to put in place a regulatory framework to ensure the regulation of
all education providers, including those operating independently or in partnership with States,
guided by international human rights law and principles, that establishes, at the appropriate
level, inter alia, minimum norms and standards for the creation and operation of educational
services, addresses any negative impact of the commercialization of education and
strengthens access to appropriate remedies and reparation for victims of violations of the
right to education;
6.
Calls upon States to promote holistic technical vocational education and
training, and work-based learning in all its forms, including in-service training,
apprenticeship and internships, by implementing appropriate policies and programmes as a
means of ensuring the realization of the right to education;
7.
Welcomes:
(a)
The work of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education, and takes note
of her latest report on the implementation of the right to education and Sustainable
Development Goal 4 in the context of the growth of private actors in education; 1
(b)
The work of the treaty bodies and the special procedures of the Human Rights
Council in the promotion of the right to education, and the work undertaken by the Office of
the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in the promotion of the right to
education at the country, regional and headquarters levels;
(c)
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 the education-related Sustainable Development Goals;
8.
Calls upon States to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,
including Sustainable Development Goal 4, in accordance with human rights law and
standards, in order to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and to promote lifelong
learning opportunities for all;
9.
Reaffirms the obligations and commitments to take steps, individually and
through international assistance and cooperation, especially economic and technical steps, 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;
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