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including sexual abuse in schools, and in this context to take measures to eliminate corporal
punishment in schools, and to incorporate in their legislation appropriate sanctions for violations
and the provision of redress and rehabilitation for victims;
(o) To take all measures to ensure an inclusive education system, inter alia for persons
with disabilities and, in particular, to ensure that no child is prevented from receiving free
primary education on account of his or her disability;
(p) To ensure that the right to education is respected in emergency situations and, in this
regard, underlines the importance of this right being realized by States to the maximum of their
available resources, and, where necessary, by international organizations, to the extent possible,
and based, inter alia, on assessed need by the State concerned, as an integral part of their
humanitarian response to emergency situations;
(q) To support the efforts of developing countries, in particular least developed
countries, to give full effect to the right to education and achieve the Millennium Development
Goals relating to education and the goals of the Education for All initiative agreed upon at the
World Education Forum, including with enhanced resources of all types, namely financial and
technical, through the Education for All fast-track initiative in support of country-led national
education plans;
8.
Reaffirms the importance of developing further the regular dialogue between the
United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization, other partners that pursue the goals of the Dakar Framework for Action and the
Special Rapporteur, with a view to integrating further the right to education into the operational
activities of the United Nations system, invites them to pursue that dialogue and reiterates its
invitation to the United Nations Children’s Fund and the United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization to submit to the Council information pertaining to their activities in
promoting primary education, with specific reference to women and children, particularly girls,
persons with disabilities and education in the context of emergency situations;
9.
Decides to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education for a
period of three years:
(a) To gather, request, receive and exchange information from all relevant sources,
including Governments, intergovernmental organizations, civil society, including nongovernmental organizations, and other concerned stakeholders, on the realization of the right to
education and on obstacles limiting effective access to education, and to make recommendations
on appropriate measures to promote and protect the right to education;
(b) To intensify efforts aimed at identifying ways and means to overcome obstacles and
difficulties in the realization of the right to education;
(c) To make recommendations that could contribute to the realization of the Millennium
Development Goals, and in particular of development goals 2 and 3, and of the goals of the
Education for All initiative agreed upon at the World Education Forum;
(d)
To integrate a gender perspective throughout all of his work;
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