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Geneva, 10-14 April 2000
The Joint Meeting on Lifelong Learning in the Twenty-first Century: The Changing Roles of Educational Personnel,
Having met in Geneva from 10-14 April 2000,
Reaffirming that access for all to quality education and training is a fundamental right and is essential for human beings, which should be guaranteed by the State within the framework of a public service,
Noting that, despite the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the World Declaration on Education for All (Jomtien, 1990) aimed at eliminating illiteracy by the year 2000, more than 125 million children have no access at all to education, and close to 900 million adults and young people over the age of 15 - the majority of whom are women and girls - are illiterate,
Convinced that this situation is a glaring injustice, a real obstacle to economic and social development in the countries concerned, and a threat to peace,
Considering the Paid Educational Leave Convention, 1974 (No. 140) and the Human Resources Development Convention, 1975 (No. 142) and the accompanying Recommendations,
Further taking into account the painful problem of child labour, and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182), and the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138),
Also keeping in mind the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and its Follow-up, and the conclusions of the Joint Meeting on the Impact of Structural Adjustment on Educational Personnel, 1996,
Bearing in mind at the same time the decisions of the G8 Summit in Cologne in 1999, on cancelling the public debt of the poorest countries;
Adopts this fourteenth day of April 2000 the following resolution*:
The Joint Meeting on Lifelong Learning in the Twenty-first Century: The Changing Roles of Educational Personnel invites the Governing Body of the International Labour Office to:
(1) draw the attention of the ILO member States to the importance of the discussion to take place during the 88th Session of the International Labour Conference in May-June 2000 on human resources development and training for employment;
(2) request the Director-General, when in meetings with other international agencies and especially the international financial institutions, to recommend the adoption of more effective strategies with a view to promoting access for all to education and training;
(3) request the Director-General to take advantage of the organization of the Special Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations: World Summit for Social Development and Beyond: Achieving Social Development for All in a Globalized World (26-30 June 2000, Geneva), and of the Millennium Assembly of the United Nations that will bring many Heads of State and Governments to New York on 5 September 2000, to impress upon them the urgent need for quality education and training for all;
(4) request governments to ratify the Conventions that are the foundations of the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and its Follow-up;
(5) request the Director-General to pay special attention to the results of the Special Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations: Beijing +5 Review (5-9 June 2000, New York) especially regarding access to education for girls, with a view to quality education and training for all;
(6) request the Director-General to take all appropriate action to ensure that the next World Education Forum, convened by UNESCO, the World Bank, UNDP, and UNICEF, to be held from 26 to 28 April 2000, in Dakar, Senegal, will be an occasion for the international community to affirm its willingness to take concrete measures in order to provide access to education for all by the year 2015.