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Latin America and the Caribbean: Education for All 2015. Regional review
*Updated on October 2015
Lima declaration contains perspectives from,
- 1948: Universal Declaration of Human Rights (article 26).
- 1966: International Covenant of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) that reasserts the importance of education and development.
- 1989: Convention of the Rights of the Child (articles 28 and 29 ) reiterated the right to education for all children.
- 1990: World Declaration on Education for All (Jomtien, Thailand, 1990) that recognized the fundamental right of all children, youth and adults to have access to education to meet their basic learning needs and to allow them to participate fully in society.
- 2000: Dakar Framework for Action (Dakar, Senegal, 2000) in which countries reaffirmed their collective obligation to guarantee Education for All (EFA) through six goals by 2015.
- Ministerial Declaration "Preventing through Education" adopted by 30 Ministries of Health and 26 Ministries of Education in the framework of the 1st Meeting of Ministers of Health and Education to Stop
HIV in Latin America and the Caribbean, held in Mexico city, 2008.
- First Consultation of the Americas. Ministers of Education: “A New Culture of Health in the School Context. Participation of Barbados, Cuba, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Saint Lucia, Trinidad & Tobago, Surinam and Uruguay.