Privatisation

La presente publicación contiene los "Principios Rectores sobre las empresas yclos derechos humanos: puesta en práctica del marco de las Naciones Unidas para 'proteger, respetar y remediar'", que fueron elaborados por el Representante Especial del Secretario General para la cuestión de los derechos humanos y las empresas transnacionales y otras empresas. El Representante Especial adjuntó los Principios Rectores a su informe final al Consejo de Derechos Humanos

From humble beginnings in the early 1990s, charter schools have grown explosively to become a pillar in a market-oriented national education reform in the United States. The fiscal fallout from the financial crisis of 2007-08 constricted educational budgets and intensified the public debate around directing resources to all aspects of educational reform, especially charter schools.

Conférence donnée à Sciences Pô paris, le 18 Mars 2015 à 17h, comprenant:

• Une allocution de Kishore Singh, Rapporteur spécial de l’ONU sur le droit à l’éducation
• Une présentation d’études de cas de privatisations au Chili et au Népal par la Clinique de l’École de Droit de Sciences Po
• Les réflexions d’Olivier De Schutter, universitaire et membre du Comité des droits économiques, sociaux et culturels de l’ONU

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.

Rapport alternatif soumis par la Coalition Marocaine pour l'Education pour Tous, Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights et d'autres au au groupe de pré-session du Comité des Droits Economiques Sociaux et Culturels de l’Organisation des Nations Unies à l’occasion de sa considération d’une liste de questions au Maroc lors de la 55e session du comité. Le rapport porte sur la question de la privatisation de l'éducation au Maroc.

Alternative Report submitted by ISER-Uganda and the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, with the support of the Privatisation in Education Research Initiative, the Right to Education Project, Education International, the Global Campaign for Education, the Africa Network Campaign on Education For All, Forum for Education NGO's in Uganda and the Girls Education Movement Uganda Chapter to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at its 54th Session for its consideration of the List of Issues for Uganda.

This report aims to present a brief overview of the ongoing privatisation processes in education in Brazil and its negative impacts on the achievement of the human right to education of children and adolescents.

Alternative report submitted in November 2014 to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) at its 54th Session for its consideration of the List of Issues for Chile. The report calls on UN human rights experts to question the government of Chile about the human rights violations resulting from its privatised education system.