One resolution gives the UN the mandate to begin work to draft a new treaty aimed at extending the right to secondary and pre-primary education. The resolution “expresses profound concern that, according to UNESCO, 250 million children, adolescents, and young people do not attend school, predominately at the secondary school level, and according to UNICEF, nearly 50 percent of pre-primary age children around the world – at least 175 million – are not enrolled in pre-primary education” with costs to students or their families, social inequality, and lack of infrastructure at the pre-primary and secondary levels being important obstacles to access to education in many countries. Girls are more likely to remain excluded from education. Also in relation to children, resolutions were adopted on “the safety of the child in the digital age,” recognising while the digital environment offers new opportunities for the realization of the rights of the child, it also poses risks of the violation or abuse of those rights. Five regional workshops will be held by Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to assess the risks to the safety of the child in the digital environment and identify best practices to address these risks in different geographical areas. The risks posed by the digital environment were further considered in a resolution on technology-facilitated gender-based violence, which requested the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee to prepare a study on technology-facilitated gender-based violence and its impact on women and girls. Two resolutions addressed climate and environment-related concerns – one which stressed the importance of pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, and noting the impacts of climate change on the rights to health of Indigenous Peoples, local communities, migrants, children, persons with disabilities and people in vulnerable situations, and the right to development, as well as gender equality, the empowerment of women and intergenerational equity. The second resolution addressed plastic pollution and its impacts on human rights. With respect to the right to health, resolutions were adopted on human rights in the context of HIV and AIDS, and on menstrual hygiene. Both resolutions expressed deep concern at the lingering impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the realization of human rights, in the context of the impact on the response to HIV/AIDS, and the compounded underlying and persistent gender gaps and inequality. Country-specific resolutions were adopted on Colombia, Eritrea, Myanmar, and Libya. "New report, side event highlight faith actors and their role in civic space" (WCC news release, 20 June 2024) "Interfaith Forum addresses human rights impact of climate-related losses and damages at UN event" (WCC news release, 3 July 2024) Learn more about the WCC work on "Human dignity and rights | 
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