A/HRC/RES/29/7
are in conflict-affected countries, as noted in the Education For All Global Monitoring
Report of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization of 2015 and
in the Incheon declaration;
Noting with appreciation the ongoing efforts towards strengthening protection of
schools and universities against attacks, and noting the efforts that led to the Oslo
Conference on Safe Schools, held on 28 and 29 May 2015;
Deeply concerned that, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization, despite all efforts by Governments, civil society and the
international community and the tremendous progress achieved since 2000, the Education
for All goals, and the education-related Millennium Development Goals, have not been
globally achieved,
Recognizing that the full realization of the right to education for all is an essential
condition for achieving sustainable development, and in this regard the need to ensure that
the right to education is central in the context of the post-2015 development agenda,
Welcoming the proposal of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development
Goals, which included a goal of ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and
promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all,
Reiterating the importance of access to new information technologies, including the
Internet, to facilitate the realization of the right to education and to promote inclusive
quality education,
Welcoming the steps taken at the national level to implement the right to education,
including the enactment of appropriate legislation, adjudication by national courts and the
development of national indicators,
Aware of the role that communications procedures can play to promote the
justiciability of the right to education,
1.
Calls upon all States to take all measures to implement Human Rights
Council resolutions on the right to education with a view to ensuring the full realization of
this right for all;
2.
Urges all States to give full effect to the right to education by, inter alia,
complying with their obligations to respect, protect and fulfil the right to education by all
appropriate means, including by taking measures, such as:
(a)
Putting in place a regulatory framework guided by international human rights
obligations for education providers that establishes, inter alia, minimum norms and
standards for the creation and operation of educational institutions;
(b)
Expanding educational opportunities for all without discrimination, paying
particular attention to girls, marginalized children and persons with disabilities, by, inter
alia, recognizing the significant importance of public investment in education, to the
maximum of available resources, and strengthening the engagement with communities,
local actors and civil society to contribute to education as a public good;
(c)
Ensuring that education is consistent with human rights standards and
principles, including those laid down in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in
international human rights treaties;
(d)
Monitoring private education providers and holding accountable those whose
practices have a negative impact on the enjoyment of the right to education by, inter alia,
engaging with existing national human rights mechanisms, parliamentarians and civil
society;
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