A/RES/73/134
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
21 December 2018
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 14
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 13 December 2018
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/73/L.50 and A/73/L.50/Add.1)]
73/134.
Education for democracy
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the Charter of the United Nations, including the principles and
purposes contained therein, and recognizing that human rights, the rule of law and
democracy are interlinked and mutually reinforcing and that they belong to the
universal and indivisible core values and principles of the United Nations,
Reaffirming also the right of everyone to education, which is enshrined in the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights, 2 the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 3 the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 4 the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 5 and other relevant instruments,
Recalling its resolutions 67/18 of 28 November 2012 and 69/268 of 5 March
2015 and the results of the plan of action for the second phase (2010–2014) of the
World Programme for Human Rights Education, 6 recalling also Human Rights
Council resolution 39/3 of 27 September 2018 on the World Programme for Human
Rights Education, 7 and taking note with appreciation of the plan of action for the third
phase (2015–2019) of the World Programme, 8
Taking note of section VII, entitled “Supporting the global citizenship agenda
through education for democracy”, of resolution 1 adopted on 20 November 2013 by
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Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.
Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 53A
(A/65/53/Add.1), chap. II, resolution 15/11.
Ibid., Seventy-third Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/73/53/Add.1), chap. III.
Ibid., Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigenda (A/69/53/Add.1,
A/69/53/Add.1/Corr.1 and A/69/53/Add.1/Corr.2), chap. IV, sect. A, resolution 27/12.
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