All Means All’s Submission to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child

All Means All has made a Submission to the process established under the United Nations Human Rights Council’s resolution 56/5 adopted on 10 July 2024, in which the Human Rights Council decided to establish an open-ended intergovernmental working group of the Human Rights Council with the mandate of exploring the possibility of, elaborating and submitting to the Human Rights Council a draft optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child with the aim to:

1. Explicitly recognize that the right to education includes early childhood care and education;
2. Explicitly state that, with a view to achieving the right to education, States shall:
   1. Make public pre-primary education available free to all, beginning with at least one year;
   2. Make public secondary education available free to all;
3. Recall that States shall promote and encourage international cooperation in matters relating to education;
4. Consider a provision that would allow for States parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child to incorporate all reporting on their obligations under the optional protocol into their reports submitted under article 44 of the Convention, eliminating the need for an initial or other separate reports.

All Means All’s Submission has been endorsed by the following Australian organisations:

You can read our Submission here: