What is the right to education?

• Books :
    - NEW: EDUCATION DENIED, costs and remedies, by Dr. Katarina Tomasevski, click here for details. - April 2003.
  

• Primers introduce major themes, challenges and goals:

1. Removing obstacles on the road to the right to education
2. Free and compulsory education for all children: The gap between promise and performance
3. Human rights obligations: Making education available, accessible, acceptable and adaptable
4. Human rights in education as prerequisite for human rights education

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• Reports of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education (available in French and Spanish from UNHCHR):

1. Preliminary report by Ms Katarina Tomaševski, Special Rapporteur on the right to education,
   U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/1999/49, 13 January 1999
2. Report by Ms Katarina Tomaševski, Special Rapporteur on the right to education,
   on her Mission to Uganda, 26 June - 2 July 1999,
   U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/1999/49/add. 1, 24 September 1999
3. Report by Katarina Tomaševski, Special Rapporteur on the right to education,
   on her Mission to the United Kingdom, 18 - 22 October 1999,
   U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/2000/6/6/Add. 2, 16 November 1999
4. Progress report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Katarina Tomaševski,
   U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/2000/6, 1 February 2000
5. Annual report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Katarina Tomaševski,
   U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/2001/52, 9 January 2001
6. Report submitted by Katarina Tomasevski, Special Rapporteur on the right to education,
   Mission to the United States of America 24 September - 10 October 2001, E/CN.4/2002/60/Add.1, Advanced Copy
7. Report submitted by Katarina Tomaševski, Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Mission to Turkey 3-10 February 2002, E/CN.4/2002/60/Add.2
8. Annual report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Katarina Tomaševski,
   E/CN.4/2002/60, advanced copy in English
9. Report submitted by Katarina Tomaševksi, Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the right to education,
   Mission to Indonesia, 1-7 July 2002, E/CN.4/2003/9/Add.1, 18 October 2002, Advanced Edited Version
10. Report of the Special Rapporteur, Katarina Tomaševski, submitted pursuant to Commission on Human Rights resolution 2002/23 - May 2003
11. Report submitted by Katarina Tomaševski, Special Rapporteur, pursuant to Commission on Human Rights resolution 2002/23 001 Special Rapporteur, in accordance with Commission resolution 2002/23
    Addendum - Mission to the United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) 24 November - 1 December 2002 - May 2003

• Legal status of the right to education:
    - international obligations and access to remedies « UPDATED - January 2003
    - constitutional guarantees

Is the right to education realised in practice?

• Closing the gap between promise and performance: Countries where primary education is neither free nor compulsory, or simply not available.
• At What Age?...are school-children employed, married and taken to court - Author Angela Melchiorre
  Now available as PDF »
• Minority Rights in Education: lessons for the European Union from Estonia, Latvia, Romania and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia by Duncan Wilson

Is the global education strategy contributing to the right to education?

• WHITHER EDUCATION?: Human rights law versus trade law : includes overview tables of government commitments in education - March 2003.
• Education: From lottery back to rights, International Children’s Rights Monitor, vol. 14, No. 3, September 2001 - published by Defence for Children International
• Changing the global fate of education: Only rights can halt and reverse wrongs, Education International Magazine, July 2001 - published in the quarterly magazine of Education International, a 24.5 million strong federation of education personnel

Aid for Education

• The right to education in development assistance: Commitment to the realisation of the right to education in donors’ policies and aid allocations

New additions

• Report submitted by Katarina Tomaševski, Special Rapporteur, pursuant to Commission on Human Rights resolution 2002/23 001 Special Rapporteur, in accordance with Commission resolution 2002/23
  Addendum - Mission to the United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) 24 November - 1 December 2002 - May 2003
  
  
• Report of the Special Rapporteur, Katarina Tomaševski, submitted pursuant to Commission on Human Rights resolution 2002/23 - May 2003
  
  
• NEW: EDUCATION DENIED, costs and remedies, by Dr. Katarina Tomasevski, click here for details. - April 2003.
  
  
• WHITHER EDUCATION?: Human rights law versus trade law : includes overview tables of government commitments in education - March 2003.
  
  
• Report submitted by Katarina Tomaševski, Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Mission to Turkey 3-10 February 2002, E/CN.4/2002/60/Add.2 - March 2003.
  
  

Forthcoming:

• "Minority rights in education" - publication on-going additions to Legal enforcement of the right to education
• On-going research into minority rights
• Legal enforcement of the right to education