A/HRC/17/2 2. Takes note with appreciation of: (a) The report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education on the promotion of equality of opportunity in education;3 (b) education; The work of the United Nations treaty bodies in the promotion of the right to (c) 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; (d) The contribution of the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and other relevant bodies towards attaining the Millennium Development Goals of achieving universal primary education and eliminating gender disparity in education and the goals of the Education for All agenda; 3. Urges all relevant stakeholders to increase their efforts so that the goals of the Education for All agenda can be achieved by 2015 by, inter alia, tackling persistent economic and social inequalities, including on the basis of such factors as income, gender, location, ethnicity, language and disability, and notes the role that good governance can play in this regard; 4. Urges all States to give full effect to the right to education by, inter alia, promoting equality of opportunity in education in accordance with their human rights obligations, including by: (a) enjoyment; Ensuring adequate legal protection of the right to education and its equal (b) Addressing multiple forms of inequality and discrimination in education through comprehensive policies; (c) Ensuring adequate resource allocation, including through the identification and implementation of innovative financing mechanisms; (d) Supporting national mechanisms that promote the realization of the right to education, such as national human rights institutions; (e) Increasing efforts to achieve the goals of the Education for All agenda and the commitments relating to education contained in the Millennium Development Goals and their review process, with a human rights-based approach; (f) Promoting a coordinated approach when considering follow-up to the concluding observations adopted by the United Nations human rights treaty bodies, the recommendations formulated by the special procedures and recommendations accepted within the universal periodic review process; (g) Integrating a gender perspective in all policies and programmes relating to education with a view to eliminate gender disparities at all levels of education; 5. Reaffirms the need for adequate financial resources so that everyone can realize their right to education and the importance in this regard of national resource mobilization and international cooperation; 6. Decides to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education for a period of three years; 3 GE.12-13630 A/HRC/17/29 and Corr.1. 11