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General Comments and other normative interpretations

Consider the General Comments of International Treaty Bodies

Many international conventions establish a committee to monitor and advise on the implementation of its provisions. To this end, committees frequently make a General Comment on a particular provision as guidance on how the provision should be implemented. Serving to elucidate the obligations of the State, a General Comment is an authoritative interpretation of binding obligations.

The following general comments/recommendations are worth looking at with regard to the content of right to education provisions:

Committee on the Rights of the Child:

GC 1 - The Aims of Education

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights:

GC 11 - Plans of action for primary education

GC 13 - The right to education

Human Rights Committee:

GC 18 - Non-discrimination

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women:

GR 3 - Education and public information programmes

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination:

GR 14 - Article 1(1)

GR 20 - Article 5

GR 24 - Article 1