“Today, Syrian refugee children in Jordan face a bleak educational present, and an uncertain future. Close to one in three—226,000 out of 660,000—Syrians registered with the United Nations refugee agency in Jordan are school-aged children between 5-17 years old. Of these, more than one-third (over 80,000) did not receive a formal education last year.”
In this report, the Special Rapporteur argues that treating economic and social rights as human rights is essential both for efforts to eliminate extreme poverty and to ensure a balanced and credible approach in the field of human rights as a whole. He argues that economic and social rights currently remain marginal in most contexts, thus undermining the principle of the indivisibility of the two sets of rights.
En 1973, la Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos dictaminó que un sistema de financiamiento de las escuelas públicas basado principalmente en ingresos provenientes de los impuestos locales sobre la propiedad no viola la Cláusula sobre Protección Igualitaria de la Decimocuarta Enmienda, ni viola el derecho a la educación porque aunque la educación es un “servicio importante” no constituye un derecho fundamental, tal como lo reconoce la