Human Rights Council Side Event: Privatisation and its Impact on the Right to Education - Overview of the Global Trends, Multiple manifestations and Common Concerns

On 12 June 2014, during the June Session of the Human Rights Council, the Portuguese Mission, together with Privatisation in Education Research Initiative (PERI) and the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR), convened a side-event on privatisation and its impact on the right to education at Palais des Nations in Geneva. In its presentation, Antoni Verger (senior researcher and lecturer at the Department of Sociology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) gives an overview of the global trends, multiple manifestations and common concerns.