A/RES/70/137
Rights of the child
(o) To ensure inclusive quality education, including by strengthening inputs,
processes and evaluation of learning outcomes and mechanisms to measure and
monitor progress, including by collecting disaggregated data, as well as by ensuring
that teachers and educators are empowered, adequately recruited, well -trained,
qualified, motivated and well supported with well-resourced, efficient and
effectively governed systems, recognizing the importance of regional and
international cooperation in this regard;
(p) To further ensure relevant and effective learning outcomes and ensure the
acquisition of the foundational skills of literacy and numeracy, as well as analytical,
problem-solving and other high-level cognitive, interpersonal and social skills;
(q) To take specific measures to respect, protect, promote and fulfil the right
of the child to engage in play and recreational activities, in particular by promoting
the provision of a school curriculum that allows for sufficient opportunity for play
and recreational activities, including physical education and sport;
(r) To integrate human rights education and training, education for
democracy, along with civic education and education for sust ainable development
into national and subnational education standards, and in this regard to develop and
strengthen national and subnational programmes, curricular and extracurricular
educational activities and to implement, as appropriate, the Global Acti on
Programme on Education for Sustainable Development; 21
(s) To adopt legislative and other appropriate measures with a view to
realizing the right to education for children with disabilities, on the basis of equal
opportunity, and to ensure an inclusive education system at all levels that provides
reasonable accommodation of the child’s needs, along with the required effective
individualized support measures in environments to maximize academic and social
development, within the general education system, and consistent with the goal of
full inclusion, which facilitates effective education;
(t) To take all appropriate measures to safeguard the realization of the right
to education for indigenous children, including their access to quality education, on
the basis of equal opportunity, in a manner conducive to their fullest possible social
inclusion and individual development, including through the pr ovision of
compulsory primary education that is available free to all and, when possible, is
provided in their own language, and to take all appropriate measures to make all
other levels and all forms of education available and accessible to indigenous
children without discrimination;
(u) To develop and implement educational programmes and teaching
materials, including comprehensive evidence-based education on human sexuality,
based on full and accurate information, for all adolescents and youth, in a mann er
consistent with their evolving capacities, with appropriate direction and guidance
from parents and legal guardians, with the active involvement of all relevant
stakeholders, in order to modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men
and women of all ages, to eliminate prejudices and to promote and build decision making, communication and risk reduction skills for the development of respectful
relationships based on gender equality and human rights, as well as teacher
education and training programmes for both formal and non-formal education;
(v) To measure progress in the realization of the right to education, by, for
example, developing national indicators as an important tool for the realization of
the right to education and for policy for mulation, impact assessment and
transparency;
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