16 December 2024
UNESCO has just launched a consultation on the development of Guiding principles on the right to early childhood care and education. The deadline to contribute is 31 of January 2025.The Right to Education Initiative, together with a working group of experts including representatives from UNESCO, the UN Special Rapporteur’s Office, civil society, and academia, facilitates the process of drafting... Read more
16 December 2024
On 10 December 2024, to celebrate the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) adopted in 1948, our Director, Delphine Dorsi, spoke at a seminar organised by the Irish Network for Education Worldwide on ‘Education - A Human Right under Threat’, where she emphasised the importance of education as a fundamental human right. The event brought together experts and advocates to... Read more
21 November 2024
On 20-21 November 2024, our ECCE Programme Manager, Rajakumari Michael, and our director, Delphine Dorsi, participated in the inaugural Technical Advisory Group (TAG) of the Global Report on ECCE organized by UNESCO in Paris and online.The meeting gathered key stakeholders active in advancing the ECCE agenda according to the Tashkent Declaration, including: agencies tasked with co-publishing the... Read more
11 November 2024
In October 2024, at the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Farida Shaheed, presented her thematic report on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education. In the report, she emphasises the necessity of states to regulate AI platforms in education from a human rights perspective. She highlights AI’s potential to serve as a tool to... Read more
1 October 2024
On 30 September 2024, our Director, Delphine Dorsi, spoke at an event on protecting the right to early childhood care and education (ECCE) during crisis organised by UNESCO with the support of the Geneva Global Hub for Education in Emergencies, UNICEF, Education Cannot Wait and the permanent mission of Colombia to the UN in Geneva.The event was held on the side of the Human Rights Council and as... Read more
16 July 2024
On 10 July 2024, the Human Rights Council adopted by consensus a resolution establishing an open-ended intergovernmental working group with the mandate of exploring the possibility of, elaborating and submitting to the Human Rights Council a draft optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the rights to early childhood education, free pre-primary education and free... Read more
5 July 2024
On 27 June 2024, at the 56th session of the Human Rights Council, the Right to Education Initiative (RTE), co-organised, with the Global Advocacy Group on ECCE Rights, a side event on ‘Guiding Principles on Early Childhood Care and education (ECCE) Rights: A Way Towards Strengthening the International and National Normative Framework’. This event was co-sponsored by the Permanent Delegations of... Read more
3 July 2024
In June 2024, at the 56th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Farida Shaheed, presented her thematic report on 'Academic Freedom' and urged States and other stakeholders, including public and private educational institutions, to implement the ‘Principles for Implementing the Right to Academic Freedom’, annexed to her report.Her... Read more
1 July 2024
On 18-19 June 2024, RTE’s Director, Delphine Dorsi, took part in a dialogue on the right to education organised by the Swiss Commission for UNESCO, the university of Geneva and the UNESCO Liaison Office in Geneva, as part of their initiative ‘UNESCO & Human Rights Dialogues, launched in 2021. The aim of theses dialogues is to provide platforms for frank and open discussions between leading... Read more
13 June 2024
On 29 May 2024, RTE’s director, Delphine Dorsi, participated, as a discussant, in NORRAG online event on The Right to Pre-School Education. The aim of the webinar was to discuss the gap between the importance of pre-school education, as reflected in key political commitments such as SDG 4 and the Tashkent Declaration, and the enjoyment of this right which is far of being a reality, with a... Read more