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A través de cinco estudios de caso, esta publicación analiza el contexto y los desafíos relacionados con el derecho a la educación, el marco jurídico aplicable a cada caso, las estrategias de incidencia de los derechos puestas en marcha por las organizaciones de la sociedad civil, los resultados y los impactos de sus esfuerzos, así como las lecciones aprendidas de cada experiencia.

Cette publication montre comment les organisations de la société civile peuvent s'appuyer sur le droit et les mécanismes des droits de l'Homme pour renforcer leurs stratégies de plaidoyer et obliger les titulaires d’obligations à rendre des comptes.

This publication demonstrates how civil society organisations can draw on human rights law and mechanisms to reinforce their advocacy strategies and pursue accountability. 

Indigenous Peoples are diverse, within and across nations. However, the Indigenous Peoples have experienced colonisation processes that have undermined Indigenous young people’s access to their identity, language and culture. At the same time, Indigenous children have not generally had access to the same quality of education that other children in their country have had access to. These two forces in combination have undermined the educational opportunities and outcomes of successive generations of Indigenous children and young people, at times with catastrophic effect.

The Supreme Court of Canada upheld a decision of the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal (the ‘BC HRT’) (reversing the decisions of both the British Columbia Supreme Court and the British Columbia Court of Appeal) that the Board of Education of School District No.

Published in 2015, this document is the second of a series of thematic mappings on the implementation of the right to education, following a first edition on Girls’ and Women’s Right to Education. It presents concrete measures adopted by countries to ensure the full enjoyment of the right to education for persons with disabilities.

This booklet brings together educators from different countries to examine the negative effects of privatisation on the right to education, education quality, equity, and teaching. Building upon specific examples from the US, Canada, Chile and South Africa, it makes the argument that privatisation increases inequality and stratification in education, and substitutes good public policy with the vagaries of charity or the single-mindedness of profit-making.