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In her progress report, the Special Rapporteur on the right to education notes difficulties in the carrying out of her mandate which originate in inadequate servicing by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and also points out an innovative facet she has introduced, follow-up to her country missions, following the Commission’s emphasis on promoting the right to education.

E/CN.4/2000/6

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Ce rapport a été publié en Juillet 2020 par la Rapporteuse Spéciale sur le droit à l’éducation, Koumbou Boly Barry.  

L’obligation qu’ont les États de veiller à ce que les établissements d’enseignement relevant de leur juridiction respectent les normes relatives aux droits humains exige une bonne compréhension des synergies qui existent entre le droit à l’éducation et les autres droits de la personne, ainsi que des moyens de promouvoir davantage l’intégration de ces droits dans les pratiques. 

The report was published in July 2020 by the Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Koumbou Boly Barry. 

The obligation of States to ensure that educational facilities within their jurisdictions meet human rights standards requires a clear understanding of the synergies between the right to education and other human rights, and ways of further promoting the integration of those rights into practices. 

Cette fiche d’information est basée sur le rapport sur les interrelations entre le droit à l'éducation et les droits à l'eau et à l'assainissement, y compris l'hygiène et la santé menstruelle. Il a été publié par la Rapporteuse Spéciale sur le droit à l'éducation qui entend construire une approche holistique des droits de l'homme, et souligne que les droits à l'eau et à l'assainissement sont des conditions préalables à l'efficacité du droit à l'éducation.

This factsheet is based on the report of the Special rapporteur on the right to education on the interrelations between the right to education and the rights to water and sanitation which intends to build a holistic approach on human rights, and highlights that rights to water and sanitation are prerequisites for the efficiency of the right to education.

In the present report, the Special Rapporteur considers ways in which the right to education contributes to the prevention of atrocity crimes and mass or grave human rights violations. Stressing that education has a key role to play at all stages of prevention, the Special Rapporteur underlines the particularly forceful preventive potential of the right to education in the very early stages, before warning signs are apparent. That role is to be linked with the aims of education and the right to inclusive and equitable quality education, as established in international instruments.

In this report, the Special Rapporteur examines the implementation of the right to education and Sustainable Development Goal 4 in the context of the growth of private actors in education. She presents the Abidjan Principles on the human rights obligations of States to provide public education and to regulate private involvement in education, and recommends their full implementation. She recalls that international human rights law requires States to provide free, quality, public education.

In the present report, the Special Rapporteur reviews the situation of refugees with regard to the right to education, in particular in the context of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Reports on the broader issue of education in emergencies were presented to the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/8/10) and the General Assembly (A/66/269) by previous incumbents. The Special Rapporteur considers that it is relevant to follow-up on the issue in today’s context.

In the present report, the Special Rapporteur examines how the right to education, and the commitments made under the Sustainable Development Goals, provide guidance for governance in national education systems. She considers how the right to education should be mainstreamed into education governance. Governance in this context can be thought to include the laws, policies, institutions, administrative procedures and practices, monitoring and accountability mechanisms, and judicial procedures that are related to education.