Comité des droits de l'enfant - Observation générale No.16 sur les obligations des Etats concernant les incidences du secteur des entreprises sur les droits de l'enfant
Convention relative aux droits de l'enfant
Bush v Holmes (Supreme Court of Florida; 2006)
In this decision, the Florida Supreme Court held that a voucher program providing public funds to students to obtain private education failed to comply with article IX, section 1 of the Florida Constitution, which requires the state government to make adequate provision for education through a uniform system of free public schools. This decision confirms Florida’s constitutional obligation to provide high quality, free public education – a duty that cannot be discharged by funding unregulated private schools through a voucher or scholarship program.
Free to Think: Report of the Scholars at Risk Academic Freedom Monitoring Project
Scholars at Risk announces the release of Free to Think, a report of the Academic Freedom Monitoring Project. The culmination of four years of monitoring and analysis by SAR staff and researchers around the world, the report analyzes 333 attacks on higher education communities in 65 countries from January 2011 to May 2015, demonstrating the pressing need to raise awareness and document attacks on higher education:
Instrumentos Internacionales - Libertad Académica
Este documento enumera los instrumentos internacionales que se refieren a la libertad de académica con sus disposiciones pertinentes.
Instrumentos Internacionales - Libertad de Enseñanza
Este documento enumera los instrumentos internacionales que se refieren a la libertad de enseñanza con sus disposiciones pertinentes.
Kjeldsen, Busk Madsen and Pedersen v. Denmark (1976)
In this decision, the European Court of Human Rights clarified States’ obligations regarding the freedom of parents to educate their children according to their religious and philosophical convictions as guaranteed by Article 2 of Protocol 1 (P1-2) to the European Convention on Human Rights. The Court found that compulsory sex education in public schools does not violate parental freedom.
International Instruments - Academic Freedom
International Instruments - Educational Freedom