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

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