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

A/HRC/RES/20/7View 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 2012.

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?

6 subjects

Cooperation Between Organizations Disaster Preparedness Educational Quality Human Rights International Cooperation Right to Education

What’s in this document?

20 operative paragraphs

Calls upon all States to take all measures to implement Human Rights Council resolutions 8/4, 11/6 of 17 June 2009, 15/4 of 29 September 2010 and 17/3 with a view to ensuring the full realization of the right to education for all;

Notes with appreciation:

The report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education on normative action for quality education;⁴

⁴A/HRC/20/21.

The work of the United Nations human rights treaty bodies and special procedures 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;

International initiatives to promote quality in education, including at the regional level;

Calls upon all relevant stakeholders urgently to increase their efforts so that the goals of the Education for All agenda can be achieved by 2015;

Urges all States to give full effect to the right to education by, inter alia, promoting quality education by such means as:

The development and strengthening of domestic legal and policy frameworks in that regard for the entire education system;

The implementation of quality assessments with a view to promoting equitable education systems, learning opportunities and the empowerment of women, giving particular consideration to the educational needs of segments of the population that are economically and socially marginalized;

The provision of a healthy, hygienic and safe learning environment, with adequate water and sanitation facilities, including sex-segregated toilets, and healthy classrooms;

The improvement of teachers’ qualifications and working conditions;

The allocation of adequate financial resources to quality education, including through national and international resource mobilization and international cooperation;

Support for research and encouragement of further debate on quality education;

The putting in place of regular mechanisms for dialogue that will enable individuals, civil society organizations and all relevant stakeholders to contribute, where appropriate, to the planning, monitoring and evaluation of the realization of the right to education;

Urges States and other relevant stakeholders to pay enhanced attention to education in emergency situations by, inter alia, enhancing the protection of schools from attacks and strengthening safety and disaster risk reduction;

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 and 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, including by enhancing technical assistance to Governments;

Stresses the importance of the contribution of national human rights institutions and non-governmental and civil society organizations to the realization of the right to education, including through cooperation with the Special Rapporteur on the right to education;

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 twentieth session (A/HRC/20/2), chap. I.

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