Literacy for life: shaping future agendas
A/RES/68/132
4.
Calls upon all Governments to develop reliable measures of literacy and
generate data that are comparable across time and disaggregated by age, sex,
disability, socioeconomic status and other relevant factors;
Encourages Member States, their development partners and the
5.
specialized agencies and other organizations of the United Nations system, as
appropriate, to sustain and expand the gains achieved during the Decade through
additional technical and financial support and to promote literacy and literate
environments through multi-pronged approaches, with a focus on marginalized
groups or those in vulnerable situations, in particular girls and women, people living
in rural areas and persons with disabilities, including by utilizing innovative
information and communications technology solutions, bearing in mind that the
target date of 2015 for the achievement of the Education for All goals and the
Millennium Development Goals is approaching;
Requests the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
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Organization to reinforce its coordinating and catalysing role in the fight against
illiteracy, and encourages its Director-General to continue the process of elaborating
a literacy vision and agenda for the period subsequent to the United Nations
Literacy Decade, in consultation with Member States and development partners, in
order to ensure a successful global multi-stakeholder partnership;
Recognizes the need to give appropriate consideration to the issue of
7.
literacy in the discussions on the post-2015 development agenda;
8.
Requests the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the Director-General
of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to submit
to the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session a report on the implementation of
the present resolution;
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-ninth session,
9.
under the item entitled “Social development”, a sub-item entitled “Literacy for life:
shaping future agendas”.
70th plenary meeting
18 December 2013
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