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Call for contributions: the right to education, advances and challenges

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Special Rapporteur on the right to education

Last updated

10 May 2023

Closed

Submissions now online (See below)

Purpose: To inform the Special Rapporteur for her thematic report to the Human Rights Council in June 2023.

Background

In her first report to the Human Rights Council, to be presented in June 2023, the Special Rapporteur on the right to education intends to undertake a review of the achievements of the mandate on the right to education over the last 25 years. Indeed, in 2023 the mandate will celebrate its 25th anniversary. The time has come to take stock of the advances the mandate has made in understanding the normative content of the right to education under international human rights law. It is also important to reassert and reassess the added value of an approach based on the human right to education in education matters.

In addition, in her report, the Special Rapporteur intends to identify the current main challenges to the right to education today and the crucial issues that deserve attention for the future.

Key questions and types of input/comments sought

Download the questionnaire (Word): English | Français | Español

How inputs will be used

All inputs received will be posted on the OHCHR website. Please indicate if you have any objections regarding to your reply being posted on the OHCHR website.

Inputs Received

Inputs Received
STATES

Armenia

Burundi

Colombia

Djibouti

Ecuador [Annex I, Annex II]

Egypt

El Salvador

Irak

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Montenegro

Poland

Qatar

Saudi Arabia

Switzerland

The Netherlands

Ukraine

UNITED NATIONS

UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean

UNHCR

UNICEF

UNICEF Kazakhstan

UNESCO, Culture Sector 

UNESCO, Education Sector

NHRI

Austrian Ombudsman Board

Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos, Mexico

Defensoría del Pueblo de la Nación, República Argentina

National Human Rights Commission of India

Ombdusperson of Romania

Ombudsman’s Office of the Republic of Latvia [Annex I, Annex II]

Portuguese Ombudsman institution

Slovak National Centre for Human Rights

Institución nacional de derechos humanos y defensoría des Pueblo, Uruguay INDDHH

OTHER NATIONAL or LOCAL HUMAN RIGHTS BODIES

Comisión de Derechos Humanos de la Ciudad de México

Cypriot Commissioner for Children's Rights

National CRPD Monitoring Mechanism of the German Institute for Human Rights

Ombudsman for Children in Sweden

Public Defender of Rights

Secretaría Letrada de Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos del Ministerio Público de la Defensa de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires

OTHER NATIONAL BODIES (working on education)

Superintendencia Nacional de Educación Superior Universitaria

CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS

l'Association d'Aide à l'Education de l'Enfant Handicapé (AAEEH)

Association of Reintegration of Crimea

Amnesty International Österreich | Austria

Amnesty International | Switzerland

ALLI FHREE

Access Now

ACIJ - Civil Association for Equality and Justice, Buenos Aires

Belarusian Helsinki Committee

Bahrain Teachers Association

Catesco, Fundació Bofill and PinCAT

Citizen Outreach Coalition

Coalition : The Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR), Actionaid, Amnesty International, the Coalition for Transparency and Accountability in Education (COTAE), The East African Centre for Human Rights (EACHRights), the Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER), the Mouvement Ivoirien des Droits Humains (MIDH) and OXFAM

Eastern European Coalition for LGBT+ Equality

European Students' Union - ESU

FEDOMA (Federation of Disability Organizations in Malawi)

Federation of Estonian Student Unions - EÜL

Fédération des Etudiant.e.s Francophones

Fédération pour la Liberté du Choix de l’Instruction et des Apprentissages (Collectif Félicia)

Festus Fajemilo Foundation Nigeria

Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack’s (GCPEA)

Global Schools Forum

Global Survivors fund

Hala Systems and Starling Lab

HRW

Inclusion Canada and Inclusive Education Canada

Inclusion International

Instituto Jô Clemente

Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion

JONAPWD

KAILASH UNION

New Humanity

OIDEL - DROIT A L’EDUCATION ET LIBERTE D’ENSEIGNEMENT

People For Education, Canada

Right to Education Initiative

Sightsavers

Slovak Student Council of Higher Education

Sociedad Peruana de Síndrome Down

TaxEd Alliance

Unione degli Universitari

Western Cape Forum for Intellectual Disability - WCFID

World Psychiatric Association Section of Old Age Psychiatry and International Psychogeriatric Association

ACADEMICS

Francis Nyonzo, an economist, author and researcher from Tanzania

Chidi Ezegwu - Centre for Social Justice and Well-being in Education, Lancaster University, UK

Svetlana Sirmbard, Rector of ADAM University/BAFE, Kyrgyzstan

Ndeye Astou NDIAYE

Grupo de Investigación Democracia, Estado e Integración Social (DEIS), Programa de Ciencia Política, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Cali Colombia

Others

Luis Jugo Burguera, Venezuela

Hamed Farmand

Josephus Brimah (Sierra Leone), Chief Technical and Higher Education Officer (Professional Head) of the Ministry of Technical and Higher Education (Sierra Leone)

Richard Fransham (Canada)

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