24 April 2020
The Right to Education Initiative (RTE) is seeking new trustees with relevant skills and expertise to join our international Board of Trustees and help us to achieve our objectives. This is an opportunity for those with an interest in the right to education to join the organisation at an exciting time in its development. As a trustee, you will play an important role in helping us to realise our ... Read more
15 April 2020
The European Committee of Social Rights, which monitors compliance with the European Social Charter refers to the Abidjan Principles (APs) in its most recent set of conclusions - which include detailed discussions of the right to education for states parties to the Council of Europe.The Committee published a statement of the interpretation of Article 17§2 (right to education) regarding private... Read more
10 April 2020
The World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) has set a new precedent in upholding the right to education in an official commitment to freeze investments in private for-profit pre-primary, primary, and secondary (also called “K-12”) schools. The signatory organisations applaud this landmark decision by the IFC, which responds to the concerns voiced by civil society about the... Read more
31 March 2020
On 16 April, the Right to Education Initiative will participate in an online panel The Abidjan Principles on the right to education: A practical tool to address global challenges to the provision of quality education for all to ensure future peaceful societies and life on earth. The panel will take place from 11:30am-1pm Miami time (8:30-10am San Francisco, 5:30-6pm Paris, 6:30-8pm Nairobi/... Read more
24 March 2020
In response to an increased recognition that the private actors involved in the provision of social services have ‘contributed to the low level of enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights’, which have been inadequately regulated by States, the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) passed a resolution to develop norms on States’ obligations to regulate private actors... Read more
6 March 2020
On International Women’s Day, help us fight for the right to education for the thousands of girls in Kenya who have been forced out of school after experiencing sexual violence, leading to early and unintended pregnancy: - 32% of women aged 18-24 have reported experiencing sexual violence when they were a child- 3 out of 10 of those girls became pregnant- 98% of girls who have ever been pregnant... Read more
5 March 2020
13 organisations, including the Right to Education Initiative, alert on the ‘violation of France's obligations vis-à-vis the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights through its investment in Bridge International Academies (BIA)’ in a submission to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR).‘Faced with evidence demonstrating the negative impact of BIA... Read more
13 February 2020
(Paris, 13 February 2019) As today marks the first anniversary of the adoption of the Abidjan Principles on the right to education organisations around the world are celebrating the significant renewed momentum for the right to education that developed in just a year. Rapid recognition of the Abidjan PrinciplesInternational and regional human rights institutions, including the United Nations... Read more
10 February 2020
The Abidjan Principles have received recognition in the latest report on private debt and human rights by the Independent Expert on the effect of foreign debt, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky.In the report Bohoslavsky explores the link between private debt (which includes individual and household debt) and human rights, and explains that:‘Debt is not per se a human rights problem, even less a violation.... Read more
29 January 2020
This week the Special Rapporteurship on Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights (REDESCA) of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) recognised the Abidjan Principles on the right to education as a ‘valuable specialised source of interpretation’ of State obligations with regard to the right to education within the framework of the Inter-American system.In a new report, ‘... Read more