Right to Education Initiative - Education Under Attack Indicators List
This list contains 51 indicators relevant to the monitoring of education under attack. They are divided into four sections - Attacks on schools and universities; Attacks on students, teachers and other educational personnel; Military use of schools and universities; and transversal or cross cutting indicators, which apply to more than one category and that are crucial to the analysis from a human rights’ perspective.
Each indicator is accompanied by comments and supplementary detail.
Joint civil society letter on UN Human Rights Treaty Body reviews
Letter written by 523 NGOs, including RTE, to the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights urging them to schedule country reviews no later than 2021 in the context of Covid-19. We indicate that we support online/hybrid reviews during the pandemic and ask for clear and advanced communications to civil society.
The letter is available in English, French, Spanish and Russian (all in the attached document).
Le droit à l’éducation. L’émergence d’un discours dans le contexte des laïcités françaises
This thesis aims at a better understanding of the challenging right to education emergence, often embedded within “social rights” or “debts” categories. This study is performed through the demonstration that the positive aspects of education are usually grasped using indirect references like the education public service and two civil liberties: education and conscience. These references remain the norm today despite the reality of the existence of a right to education since its supranational recognition and the recasting of education within the french domestic law.
Right to Education Initiative Constitution
IoE Monitoring Guide Launch Presentation
PowerPoint presentation used for the official launch of the Right to Education Monitoring Guide and Indicators Selection Tool at the UCL Institute of education - with notes.
UNESCO - Suivi de la déclaration de Jakarta de 2005
Recommandation de l'UNESCO concernant la condition du personnel enseignant
Realizing the right to education in Egypt: an assessment of primary education in relation to international standards
The right to education in international human rights law is contained in number of international treaties. The most comprehensive coverage of the right is found within the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) under articles 13 and 14. The primary level of education is an essential and integral phase in the development of a child, without the right to education children are unable to realize other rights.
Keynote Presentation on Rights through Education at CEDAW Half-Day General Discussion on Girls' and Women’s Right to Education
On 7 July 2014, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) held a General Discussion on the Right to Education for Girls and Women, the aim of which is to commence the Committee’s process of elaborating a “General Recommendation on girls’/women’s right to education.” Angela Melchiorre, who is Right to Education Project adviser, gave a keynote presentation on rights through education.