A/HRC/17/2
5.
Requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights to provide all the assistance to the Special Rapporteur necessary for the
effective fulfilment of his or her mandate;
6.
Decides to continue consideration of this issue in accordance with its annual
programme of work.
33rd meeting
16 June 2011
[Adopted without a vote.]
17/3
The right to education: follow-up to Human Rights Council
resolution 8/4
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming Human Rights Council resolutions on the right to education,
particularly resolutions 8/4 of 18 June 2008, 11/6 of 17 June 2009 and 15/4 of 29
September 2010, 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,
Bearing in mind General Assembly resolution 64/290 of 9 July 2010 on the right to
education in emergency situations,
Bearing in mind also the adoption by the Human Rights Council of the United
Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training through its resolution 16/1
of 23 March 2011,
Deeply concerned that, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization, although there has been progress in many areas, the world is not on
track to achieve the Education for All targets set for 2015 and most of the goals will be
missed by a wide margin,
Mindful of the role that the full realization of the right to education plays in helping
to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, and noting in this regard the commitments
relating to education contained in the outcome document of the High-level Plenary Meeting
of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals,2
Recalling Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1, on institution-building of the
Council, and 5/2, on the code of conduct for special procedures mandate holders of the
Council, of 18 June 2007, and stressing that the mandate holder shall discharge his duties in
accordance with those resolutions and the annexes thereto,
1.
Calls upon all States to take all measures to implement Human Rights
Council resolutions 8/4, 11/6 and 15/4 with a view to ensuring the full realization of the
right to education for all;
2
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General Assembly resolution 65/1.
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