A/HRC/15/60
15.
Decides to continue consideration of this issue in accordance with its annual
programme of work.
30th meeting
29 September 2010
[Adopted without a vote.]
15/4
The right to education: follow-up to Human Rights Council resolution
8/4
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming its resolutions on the right to education, particularly resolution 8/4 of 18
June 2008 and resolution 11/6 of 17 June 2009, and recalling the resolutions adopted by the
Commission on Human Rights on the subject,
Reaffirming also the human right of everyone to education, which is enshrined in,
inter alia, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and other relevant international
instruments,
Mindful of recent significant developments and remaining challenges in the
promotion and protection of economic, social and cultural rights, in particular the right to
education, at the national, regional and international levels,
Deeply concerned that, on current trends, some key goals of the Education for All
initiative agreed upon at the World Education Forum, held in Dakar in April 2000, will not
be achieved by 2015, including the goal of universal primary education, despite progress
made in recent years towards achieving such goals, and aware of the need to increase
efforts in this regard at all levels,
Deeply concerned also that, according to the 2010 Education For All Global
Monitoring Report of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization,
the global financial crisis could create a lost generation of children whose chances in life
will have been irreparably damaged by a failure to protect their right to education,
Mindful of the role that the full realization of the right to education plays in helping
to achieve the Millennium Development Goals,
Welcoming the “1Goal: Education for All”, a joint initiative of the Global Campaign
For Education and Fédération internationale de football association, including the holding
of the World Cup Education Summit in Pretoria in July 2010,
Bearing in mind the adoption by the General Assembly of resolution 64/290 of 9
July 2010, on the right to education in emergency situations,
Stressing the need for adequate financial resources so that everyone can realize his
or her right to education, and the importance in this regard of national resource
mobilization, as well as international cooperation,
1.
Calls upon all States to take all measures to implement Council resolutions
8/4 and 11/6 with a view to ensuring the full realization of the right to education for all;
12
GE.11-17043
Select target paragraph3
Connect to a paragraph
Connect to an entity
Disable highlights
Add to table of contents