Realizing the Equal Enjoyment of the Right to Education by Every Girl

A/HRC/RES/35/22View 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 2017.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 2016–2017

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2017	A/HRC/RES/35/22	Realizing the equal enjoyment of the right to education by every girl	1,407	29%Compare
2016	A/HRC/RES/32/20	Realizing the equal enjoyment of the right to education by every girl	1,687	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Anti-Discrimination Measures Educational Policy Gender Equality Girls Right to Education Women's Rights

What’s in this document?

16 operative paragraphs

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, prepared pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 32/20;³

³A/HRC/35/11.

Urges all States:

To strengthen and intensify their efforts to take deliberate, concrete and targeted steps to fully realize the equal enjoyment of the right to education by every girl, to eliminate legal, administrative, financial, structural, social and cultural barriers that hinder girls’ equal enjoyment of the right to education, and to appropriately ensure non-discrimination in the admission of girls and boys at all levels of education, particularly when designing policy measures, programmes and resource allocations;

To strengthen and intensify their efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of school-related violence against girls, and to hold those responsible for those acts accountable;

To review, repeal and eliminate, as appropriate, laws, policies and practices that can negatively affect the right to education of every girl, including discriminatory laws, policies, practices, customs, traditions or religious considerations, financial barriers, violence, including sexual violence in the school environment, the worst forms of child labour, and harmful practices, such as female genital mutilation, gender stereotypes, child, early and forced marriage and early pregnancy;

To eliminate gender stereotypes from all educational processes, practices and teaching materials, including through periodic review and revision of school curricula, textbooks, programmes and teaching methods, and the inclusion of human rights education, including on gender equality and non-discrimination, as part of the mandatory school curriculum, and to ensure that girls are encouraged to freely choose non-traditional fields of study;

To provide adequate access to water and safe, separate and quality sanitation facilities in schools, and to promote appropriate hygiene behaviour, since school water supply and sanitation are essential elements of basic education;

Calls upon States to place enhanced emphasis on quality education for girls, including catch-up, non-formal and literacy education for those who did not receive formal education, and special initiatives for keeping girls in school through post-primary education, and to promote access to skills and entrepreneurship training for girls;

Encourages States to support girls’ access to skills development by expanding the scope of education and training opportunities ranging from basic digital fluency to advanced technical skills in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and in information and communications technology;

Also encourages States to increase investments and international cooperation to provide equal opportunity for all girls to complete free, equitable, inclusive and quality early childhood, primary and secondary education, including by scaling up and strengthening national, regional and international initiatives, as appropriate, such as the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative, the Out-of-School Children Initiative, the Global Partnership for Education and the United Nations Population Fund-United Nations Children’s Fund Global Programme to Accelerate Action to End Child Marriage, and to explore additional innovative mechanisms based on models combining public and private resources while ensuring that all education providers are qualified and adequately trained and give due respect to human rights, including the right to education;

Encourages international cooperation to complement the efforts of States in matters relating to education, in particular with a view to effectively eliminating all forms of discrimination and stereotypes in education, and supports the efforts of the United Nations system in this regard;

Reaffirms the importance of continuing to develop and enhance standards and methodologies at the national, regional and international levels to improve the collection, analysis and dissemination of gender statistics and data on access to education, in particular access to universal primary education; the gender gap in youth literacy; the number of out-of-school children, and others;

Urges States to support the efforts of developing countries, in particular least developed countries, to progressively realize the right to education, in particular ensuring the right to education of every girl through allocating appropriate resources, including financial and technical resources, in support of country-led national education plans;

Reaffirms the importance of enhancing the dialogue between the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the Special Rapporteur on the right to education and other partners that pursue the goals of girls’ education with a view to promoting further the right to education of girls in the operational activities of the United Nations system;

Encourages the High Commissioner and relevant special procedure mandate holders to give the required attention to realizing the equal enjoyment of the right to education by every girl in carrying out their mandates and in their reporting, and to work collectively towards its realization through practical and efficient steps;

Decides to remain seized of the matter.

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