Human Rights Council

Sixty-second session

15 June–8 July 2026

Agenda item 3

Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development

Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 6 July 2026

6 2 / 8. The right to education

The Human Rights Council,

Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,

Reaffirming the human right of everyone to education, which is enshrined in, inter alia, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Convention against Discrimination in Education of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and other relevant international instruments,

Reaffirming also the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development andthe Sustainable Development Goals contained therein, as well as the Sevilla Commitment of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development for ensuring the realization of all those Goals, and reaffirming further in particular Goal 4, on ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all, its specific and interlinked targets, and other education-related Goals and targets, and recalling the importance of education for reaching all the Sustainable Development Goals,

Reaffirming further Human Rights Council resolution 8/4 of 18 June 2008, and recalling all other resolutions of the Council on the right to education, the most recent of which is resolution 59/9 of 7 July 2025, and recalling also the resolutions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights on the subject,

RecallingHuman Rights Council resolutions 5/1, on institution-building of the Council, and 5/2, on the Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate Holders of the Council, of 18 June 2007, and stressing that mandate holders shall discharge their duties in accordance with those resolutions and the annexes thereto,

Noting with concern that special procedure mandate holders are increasingly targeted in connection with the discharge of their functions, including through repressive activities against them,

1.Welcomes the work of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education;

2.Notes the most recent reports of the Special Rapporteur submitted to the Human Rights Council at its fifty-sixth, fifty-ninth and sixty-second sessions and to the General Assembly at its seventy-eighth, seventy-ninth and eightieth sessions;

3.Decides to extend the mandate of Special Rapporteur on the right to education for a further period of three years;

4.Encourages the Special Rapporteur, in fulfilling the mandate, to continue to take into account and support the implementation of the education-related Sustainable Development Goals and targets, the provisions of Human Rights Council resolutions on the right to education, and gender, age and disability perspectives;

5.Requests all States to cooperate fully with the Special Rapporteur with a view to facilitating the performance of her tasks, to give due consideration to the recommendations made by the mandate holder, and to respond favourably to her requests for information and visits;

6.Requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to continue to provide the Special Rapporteur with all the human and financial resources necessary for the effective fulfilment of the mandate;

7.Encourages all other relevant stakeholders, including United Nations bodies and specialized agencies, funds and programmes, other international organizations, regional human rights mechanisms, national human rights institutions and non-governmental organizations, to cooperate fully with the Special Rapporteur to enable her to fulfil the mandate;

8.Requests the Special Rapporteur to continue to submit an annual report to the Human Rights Council and to the General Assembly covering all activities relating to the mandate with a view to maximizing the benefits of the reporting process;

9.Decides to remain seized of the matter.

31st meeting

6 July 2026

[Adopted without a vote.]