La emergencia climática, el aumento de las desigualdades y la pandemia del COVID-19 han reafirmado los fallos y las limitaciones del actual modelo neoliberal para responder a las crisis y garantizar una vida digna para todos. Es necesaria una transformación en la organización de nuestra economía para afrontar los retos que el mundo tiene actualmente y crear sociedades justas, inclusivas, socialmente justas, equitativas y sostenibles.
Con este fin, actores de una amplia gama de movimientos, sectores y regiones se han movilizado en los últimos años para reclamar y reconstruir los servicios públicos como base de una economía justa y equitativa que funcione para todos. Los hitos clave han sido la primera conferencia mundial "El futuro es público", celebrada en Ámsterdam en 2019, que reunió a más de 400 participantes para debatir estrategias para devolver lo "público" a los servicios públicos y construir la propiedad pública democrática de la economía, y el lanzamiento del Manifiesto Global de la Sociedad Civil sobre los Servicios Públicos en octubre de 2021, firmado por más de 200 organizaciones.
Del 29 de noviembre al 2 de diciembre, más de mil representantes de más de cien países, de movimientos de base, organizaciones de derechos humanos y de desarrollo, movimientos feministas, sindicatos y otras organizaciones de la sociedad civil, se reunieron en Santiago de Chile, y de forma virtual, para debatir el papel crítico de los servicios públicos para nuestro futuro.
Después de la reunión, la Declaración de Santiago para los Servicios Públicos fue redactada por un grupo de redacción que representó a todos los sectores, con base en las notas y discusiones llevadas a cabo durante los cuatro días.
Nos encontramos en una coyuntura crítica. En un momento en que el mundo se enfrenta a una serie de crisis, desde la emergencia medioambiental hasta el hambre y la profundización de las desigualdades, pasando por el aumento de los conflictos armados, las pandemias, el aumento del extremismo y la escalada de la inflación, está gestándose una respuesta colectiva. Se está creando un gran movimiento y están surgiendo soluciones concretas para contrarrestar el paradigma dominante de crecimiento, privatización y mercantilización.
Cientos de organizaciones de los sectores de la justicia socioeconómica y los servicios públicos, desde la educación y la salud hasta los cuidados, la energía, la alimentación, la vivienda, el agua, el transporte y la protección social, se están uniendo para hacer frente a los efectos nocivos de la comercialización de los servicios públicos, reclamar el control público democrático de los mismos y volver a imaginar una economía verdaderamente igualitaria y orientada a los derechos humanos que funcione para las personas y el planeta.
Exigimos el acceso universal a unos servicios públicos de calidad, equitativos y transformadores de las relaciones desiguales de género como base de una sociedad justa y equitativa.
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The climate emergency, rising inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic have reaffirmed the failures and limitations of the current neoliberal model to respond to crises and ensure a dignified life for all. Transformation in the organisation of our economy is needed in order to confront the challenges the world is currently facing and to create societies that are fair, inclusive, socially-just, equitable and sustainable.
To this end, actors from a diverse range of movements, sectors and regions have, in recent years, been mobilising to reclaim and rebuild public services as the foundation of a fair and just economy that works for all. Key milestones have included the first global “Future is Public” conference held in Amsterdam 2019, which brought together over 400 participants to discuss strategies for putting the “public” back into public services and to build democratic public ownership of the economy, and the launch of the collective civil society Global Manifesto on Public Services in October 2021, signed by over 200 organisations.
From 29th November to 2nd December over a thousand representatives from over one hundred countries, from grassroots movements, advocacy, human rights, and development organisations, feminist movements, trade unions, and other civil society organisations, met in Santiago, Chile, and virtually, to discuss the critical role of public services for our future.
Following the meeting, the Santiago Declaration on Public Services was adopted by a drafting group representing all sectors, on the basis of the notes and discussions during the four days.
We are at a critical juncture. At a time when the world faces a series of crises, from the environmental emergency to hunger and deepening inequalities, increasing armed conflicts, pandemics, rising extremism, and escalating inflation, a collective response is growing. A large movement is building and concrete solutions are emerging to counter the dominant paradigm of growth, privatisation and commodification.
Hundreds of organisations across socio-economic justice and public services sectors, from education and health services, to care, energy, food, housing, water, transportation and social protection, are coming together to address the harmful effects of commercialising public services, to reclaim democratic public control, and to reimagine a truly equal and human rights oriented economy that works for people and the planet.
We demand universal access to quality, gender-transformative and equitable public services as the foundation of a fair and just society.
Our Future is Public: Join our call for universal access to quality, gender-transformative and equitable public services as the foundation of a fair and just society. Read the Declaration, and endorse it here.
L'urgence climatique, la montée des inégalités et la pandémie de COVID-19 ont réaffirmé les échecs et les limites du modèle néolibéral actuel pour répondre aux crises et assurer une vie digne pour tous. Une transformation de l'organisation de notre économie est nécessaire pour relever les défis auxquels le monde est actuellement confronté et créer des sociétés justes, inclusives, socialement justes, équitables et durables.
Àcette fin, des acteurs d'un large éventail de mouvements, de secteurs et de régions se sont mobilisés ces dernières années pour reconquérir et reconstruire les services publics en tant que fondement d'une économie juste et équitable qui fonctionne pour tous. Parmi les étapes clés, citons la première conférence mondiale « Future is Public » qui s'est tenue à Amsterdam en 2019, qui a réuni plus de 400 participants pour discuter de stratégies visant à remettre le « public » dans les services publics et à renforcer l'appropriation publique démocratique de l'économie, et le lancement du Manifeste mondial collectif de la société civile sur les services publics en octobre 2021, signé par plus de 200 organisations.
Du 29 novembre au 2 décembre, plus d'un millier de représentants de plus d'une centaine de pays, issus de mouvements populaires, d'organisations de défense des droits humains et de développement, de mouvements féministes, de syndicats et d'autres organisations de la société civile, se sont réunis à Santiago, au Chili, et virtuellement, afin de discuter du rôle crucial des services publics pour notre avenir.
Suite à la réunion, la Déclaration de Santiago pour les services publics a été rédigée par un groupe de rédaction représentant tous les secteurs, sur la base des notes et des discussions des quatre jours.
Nous sommes à un moment critique. À une époque où le monde est confronté à une série de crises, de l'urgence environnementale à la faim et à l'aggravation des inégalités, à l'augmentation des conflits armés, des pandémies, de la montée de l'extrémisme et de l'escalade de l'inflation, une réponse collective se développe. Un vaste mouvement se construit et des solutions concrètes émergent pour contrer le paradigme dominant de la croissance, de la privatisation, et de la marchandisation.
Des centaines d'organisations parmi les secteurs de la justice socio-économique et des services publics, des services d'éducation et de santé aux soins, à ceux de l'énergie, de l'alimentation, du logement, de l'eau, destransports et de la protection sociale, sont en train de se retrouver pour contrer les effets néfastes de la commercialisation des services publics, reprendre un contrôle public démocratique sur ces services, et réinventer une économie véritablement égalitaire et axée sur les droits de l'Homme qui fonctionne pour les personnes et la planète. Nous demandons l'accès universel à des services publics de qualité, équitables et transformateurs en matière de genre comme fondement d'une société juste et équitable.
Nous demandons l'accès universel à des services publics de qualité, équitables et transformateurs en matière de genre comme fondement d'une société juste et équitable.
Notre avenir est public: Rejoignez notre appel en faveur de l'accès universel à des services publics de qualité, équitables et transformateurs en matière de genre comme fondement d'une société juste et équitable.
'RTE welcomes the Tashkent Declaration’s call for an enhanced legal framework and increased public expenditure for ECCE' was written by RTE following the adoption of the ‘Tashkent Declaration and Commitments to Action for Transforming Early Childhood Care and Education at the UNESCO World Conference on Early Childhood Care and Education.
This statement summarises the most significant aspects of the Tashkent Declaration and our perspectives on the importance of this document for the protection of young children's ECCE rights.
The purpose of these Guidelines and Toolkit is to describe the different operational tools developed to help education stakeholders systematically collect and analyse the efforts put in place to ensure the right to education. These efforts should be central to every educational planning or programming document. The resulting analysis should also bring to light different and challenging policy gaps in education. The final goal is to mobilize all information and analyses gathered to nurture a constructive dialogue among key national stakeholders and to strengthen the right to education at national and local levels.
These Guidelines and Toolkit were originally conceived to support States in the planning process; thus, they are mostly directed at educational planners, managers, and decision- makers at the national level. However, the tools are flexible enough to be utilized by other relevant entities or partners at the national level (independent human rights institutions, ombudspersons, non-governmental organizations, etc.) and sub-national level, or organizations (United Nations agencies, development partners, civil society, etc.).
These Methodological Guidelines and Toolkit can and should be used to complement the UNESCO (2021) Guidelines to Strengthen the Right to Education in National Frameworks. The latter covers the right to education comprehensively and provides tools to examine and analyse the compatibility of national education legal and policy frameworks with international right to education standard-setting instruments. These Methodological Guidelines and their tools provide a new, different approach: addressing the right to education within a State’s planning and programming documents while supporting educational stakeholders in understanding and analysing the compatibility of their planning (ESPs and TEPs) or programming documents with the international obligations and commitments synthesized by the Abidjan Principles.The Abidjan Principles are not legally binding. Yet they have been mobilized throughout this project as a tool to show planners, decision-makers, and other relevant stakeholders the essential elements to acknowledge when creating or reviewing an educational planning or programming document to fulfil the right to education.
The new 2023 GEM Report on Technology in education: A tool on whose terms? addresses the use of technology in education around the world through the lenses of relevance, equity, scalability and sustainability.
It argues that education systems should always ensure that learners’ interests are placed at the center and that digital technologies are used to support an education based on human interaction rather than aiming at substituting it. The report looks at ways in which technology can help reach disadvantaged learners but also ensure more knowledge reaches more learners in more engaging and cheaper formats. It focuses on how quality can be improved, both in teaching and learning basic skills, and in developing the digital skills needed in daily life. It recognizes the role of technology in system management with special reference to assessment data and other education management information.
RTE's background paper for the Global Education Monitoring Report 2017/8: Accountability in education: Meeting our commitments.
The purpose of the paper is to show how a human rights-based approach offers insights and practical solutions to address the accountability deficits found in both education policy decision-making and implementation, and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Specifically, the paper argues that a human rights-based approach to accountability can bolster public policy accountability by defining the responsibilities of authorities, ensuring they are answerable for actions regarding those responsibilities, and how they can be subject to forms of enforceable sanctions or remedial action for failures to carry out those responsibilities.
The second half of the paper explores the prevalence of the right to education in national laws and the conditions necessary for the right to education to be successfully adjudicated at the national level. It provides an overview of how countries have incorporated the right to education in their domestic legal orders, as well as a list of countries where the right to education is justiciable. This is complemented by a series of case studies that draw out the requirements for successful adjudication at the national level.
This paper examines court cases from countries around the world to identify the conditions that enable the right to education to be realised through adjudication.
This documented was submitted to the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education in February 2023, in response to a call for contributions for a report she is developing for the UN Human Rights Council.