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

A/HRC/RES/23/4View 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 2013.

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?

3 subjects

Educational Policy Justiciability 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 on the right to education with a view to ensuring the full realization of this right for all;

Notes with appreciation:

The report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education on the justiciability of the right to education;³

³A/HRC/23/35.

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 aimed at discussing and advancing the education agenda beyond 2015, while underlining the importance that the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals and other ongoing consultation processes can have in this regard;

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, and welcomes in this regard the Education First initiative launched by the Secretary-General on 26 September 2012, including its three priority areas of putting every child in school, improving the quality of education and fostering global citizenship;

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

The adoption of adequate legislation on the implementation of the right to education;

The creation or strengthening of appropriate independent institutions and mechanisms to deal with complaints related to the right to education, stressing in this regard the importance of the independence of such institutions, including the judiciary;

Ensuring full protection of the right to education, including as it regards the responsibilities of private providers of education;

Facilitating access to appropriate adjudicatory procedures, including by adopting relevant provisions on legal standing and legal aid;

Ensuring adequate training of professionals involved in the examination of complaints related to the right to education, including judges, prosecutors, lawyers and, where appropriate, members of competent and relevant quasi-judicial mechanisms;

Fostering human rights education and information efforts concerning the enforceability of the right to education and available mechanisms to enforce this right at the national, regional and international levels;

Encouraging the development and use of appropriate indicators on the right to education;

Invites States and other relevant stakeholders to intensify their efforts to disseminate and to promote universal respect for and understanding of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training as a means to give full effect to the right to education worldwide;

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, non-governmental and civil society organizations, and parliamentarians 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 twenty-third session (A/HRC/23/2), chap. I.

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