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15 October 1999
SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON RIGHT TO EDUCATION TO VISIT UNITED KINGDOM
FROM 18 TO 22 OCTOBER 1999
The Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the right to education, Katarina Tomasevski, will visit the United Kingdom next week to analyze what she calls the country's "precedent-setting promotion of the 'rights-based' approach to international cooperation in education".
According to the Special Rapporteur, her second field mission, to last from 18 to 22 October, will also see her examine the human rights dimensions of the domestic focus on education, which the Government has declared to constitute its first priority. She adds that the specific issues she plans to discuss with Government officials include the links between the notion of social exclusion and the principle of non-discrimination; and, within gender discrimination, such issues as the "educational under-performance" of boys, teenage pregnancy.
The Special Rapporteur, who due to time limitations will confine her analysis during this mission to education in England, indicates that she has also decided to devote particular attention to the issue of children without access to compulsory education (such as institutionalized children and those expelled from school), as well as to the aims and purposes of education. In the area of post-compulsory education, she plans, among other things, to assess the human rights dimensions of the introduction of tuition fees for university education.
Mrs. Tomasevski will meet with, among other Government officials, Ms. Jacqui Smith, Schools Minister, and Sir David Ramsbotham, H.M. Chief Inspector of Prisons, as well as with officials from the Department for Education and Employment, the Department for International Development, the Treasury, the Home Office and the Social Exclusion Unit. Meetings are also scheduled with officials from the Commission for Racial Equality and representatives of various non-governmental organizations.
The Special Rapporteur is an independent expert appointed by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (see Commission resolutions 1998/33 and 1999/25). Mrs. Tomasevski was appointed Special Rapporteur in September 1998 for a period of three years. Her preliminary report is contained in UN document E/CN.4/1999/49. She previously carried out a mission to Uganda (forthcoming UN document E/CN.4/2000/6/Add.1). She is a Professor of International Law and International Relations at the University of Lund, Sweden.
For further information on the Special Rapporteur on the right to education, see the Website of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/7/b/medu.htm
15 October 1999
SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON RIGHT TO EDUCATION TO VISIT UNITED KINGDOM
FROM 18 TO 22 OCTOBER 1999
The Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the right to education, Katarina Tomasevski, will visit the United Kingdom next week to analyze what she calls the country's "precedent-setting promotion of the 'rights-based' approach to international cooperation in education".
According to the Special Rapporteur, her second field mission, to last from 18 to 22 October, will also see her examine the human rights dimensions of the domestic focus on education, which the Government has declared to constitute its first priority. She adds that the specific issues she plans to discuss with Government officials include the links between the notion of social exclusion and the principle of non-discrimination; and, within gender discrimination, such issues as the "educational under-performance" of boys, teenage pregnancy.
The Special Rapporteur, who due to time limitations will confine her analysis during this mission to education in England, indicates that she has also decided to devote particular attention to the issue of children without access to compulsory education (such as institutionalized children and those expelled from school), as well as to the aims and purposes of education. In the area of post-compulsory education, she plans, among other things, to assess the human rights dimensions of the introduction of tuition fees for university education.
Mrs. Tomasevski will meet with, among other Government officials, Ms. Jacqui Smith, Schools Minister, and Sir David Ramsbotham, H.M. Chief Inspector of Prisons, as well as with officials from the Department for Education and Employment, the Department for International Development, the Treasury, the Home Office and the Social Exclusion Unit. Meetings are also scheduled with officials from the Commission for Racial Equality and representatives of various non-governmental organizations.
The Special Rapporteur is an independent expert appointed by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (see Commission resolutions 1998/33 and 1999/25). Mrs. Tomasevski was appointed Special Rapporteur in September 1998 for a period of three years. Her preliminary report is contained in UN document E/CN.4/1999/49. She previously carried out a mission to Uganda (forthcoming UN document E/CN.4/2000/6/Add.1). She is a Professor of International Law and International Relations at the University of Lund, Sweden.
For further information on the Special Rapporteur on the right to education, see the Website of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/7/b/medu.htm