The Right to Education Follow-Up to Human Rights Council Resolution 8/4

A/HRC/RES/17/3View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, published in 2011.

What other versions does this mandate have?

9 versions · 2009–2019

This is an older version — the most recent is A/HRC/RES/41/16

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2019	A/HRC/RES/41/16	The right to education follow-up to Human Rights Council resolution 8/4 :	1,996	77%Compare
2018	A/HRC/RES/38/9	The right to education follow-up to Human Rights Council resolution 8/4 :	1,943	54%Compare
2017	A/HRC/RES/35/2	The right to education follow-up to Human Rights Council resolution 8/4 :	1,884	33%Compare
2014	A/HRC/RES/26/17	The right to education follow-up to Human Rights Council resolution 8/4 :	1,073	40%Compare
2013	A/HRC/RES/23/4	The right to education follow-up to Human Rights Council resolution 8/4 :	942	53%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Equality Right to Education Special Rapporteurs State Responsibility

What’s in this document?

23 operative paragraphs

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;

Takes note with appreciation of:

The report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education on the promotion of equality of opportunity in education;⁴

⁴A/HRC/17/29 and Corr.1.

The work of the United Nations treaty bodies in the promotion of the right to education;

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;

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;

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;

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:

Ensuring adequate legal protection of the right to education and its equal enjoyment;

Addressing multiple forms of inequality and discrimination in education through comprehensive policies;

Ensuring adequate resource allocation, including through the identification and implementation of innovative financing mechanisms;

Supporting national mechanisms that promote the realization of the right to education, such as national human rights institutions;

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;

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;

Integrating a gender perspective in all policies and programmes relating to education with a view to eliminate gender disparities at all levels of education;

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;

Decides to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education for a period of three years;

Requests the Special Rapporteur to take fully into account, in the discharge of his mandate, all provisions of Human Rights Council resolutions on the right to education;

Requests all States to continue to cooperate with the Special Rapporteur with a view to facilitating his tasks in the discharge of his mandate, and to respond favourably to his requests for information and visits;

Requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to provide all the human and financial resources necessary for the effective fulfilment of the mandate by the Special Rapporteur;

Encourages the Office of the High Commissioner, the treaty bodies, the special procedures of the Human Rights Council and other relevant United Nations bodies and mechanisms, specialized agencies or programmes, within their respective mandates, to continue their efforts to promote the realization of the right to education worldwide and to enhance their cooperation in this regard and, in this connection, encourages the Special Rapporteur to facilitate, including through engagement with relevant stakeholders, the provision of technical assistance in the area of the right to education;

Stresses the importance of the contribution of non-governmental and civil society organizations to the realization of the right to education, including by cooperating with the Special Rapporteur;

Decides to remain seized of the matter.

 The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of the Council on its seventeenth session (A/HRC/17/2), chap. I.

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