Appendix I: The New Delhi Declaration for a Holistic Vision of Education for All
| Date | 01 December 1991 |
| Published date | 01 December 1991 |
| DOI | 10.1177/016934419100900410 |
| Subject Matter | Part C: Appendices |
NQHR4
/1991
PART C: APPENDICES
APPENDIX I
THE NEW DELHI DEClARATION FOR A HOLISTIC VISION OF
EDUCATION
FOR
ALL
The Sixty Ninth General Assembly of World University Service representing
45 countries meeting in New Delhi from the 10th to the 14th September 1991
hereby declares that:
1. Education is a right to all human beings and it is the duty of all States and
nations to ensure this right to be fully exercised. One of the most important
challenges that society must meet before the year 2000, threshold of the
next millennium, is that all human beings have access to basic education
and other educational opportunities.
2. Communication has developed enormously in today's world and social and
political processes of paramount importance are common knowledge and
affect all human beings. Nevertheless, the gap between the poor and the
rich countries is increasing and within countries inequality is also growing.
Nowadays, illiteracy has spread to alarming proportions in many countries
and poor quality and inadequate education for large groups of the popu-
lation, especially women and girls, has lead to further poverty, marginali-
sation and unequal access to resources for future generations.
That is why this Assembly adheres to the world programme of
Education for All understood as a comprehensive process at the heart of the
defence of human rights, the strengthening of democracy and the fair and
just development of our countries.
3. A holistic vision of Education for All must be understood as a lifelong and
permanent learning process covering both formal and informal education.
Basic education is a tool that every person has to develop as an individual
in society. This is the beginning of a comprehensive process striving
towards self-sustainablepeople-centereddevelopment. This process does not
only address children but the young, adults and the elderly, and especially
women and girls.
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