Civil society organisations play a crucial role in advancing the right to education. Yet, while education is widely recognised as a fundamental human right, many organisations face challenges in translating this legal recognition into effective advocacy strategies capable of holding governments and other duty-bearers accountable.
A través de cinco estudios de caso, esta publicación analiza el contexto y los desafíos relacionados con el derecho a la educación, el marco jurídico aplicable a cada caso, las estrategias de incidencia de los derechos puestas en marcha por las organizaciones de la sociedad civil, los resultados y los impactos de sus esfuerzos, así como las lecciones aprendidas de cada experiencia.
Cette publication montre comment les organisations de la société civile peuvent s'appuyer sur le droit et les mécanismes des droits de l'Homme pour renforcer leurs stratégies de plaidoyer et obliger les titulaires d’obligations à rendre des comptes.
This publication demonstrates how civil society organisations can draw on human rights law and mechanisms to reinforce their advocacy strategies and pursue accountability.
The Latin American Campaign for the Right to Education (CLADE, by its Spanish acronym) is a pluralistic network of civil society organizations with a presence in 18 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, which promotes social mobilization and political advocacy to defend the human right to education. This collection of articles, essays and statements reflect on the vital role of public education in the region and the fault lines exposed by the pandemic, considering both the challenges public education in Latin America faces and possible solutions, alternatives and ways forward.
In 2018, 17.2 million people were internally displaced as a result of natural disasters (IDMC 2019). Just one year later, in 2019, 24.9 million people were displaced due to natural disasters and extreme weather events (IDMC 2020). The catastrophic effects of climate change are no longer isolated emergencies, but have become the new global norm- a reality that is only intensifying each year. Yet the literature regarding climate change has little to no information on the specific nexus between climate displaced and their right to education.
China’s education policy in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) is significantly reducing the access of ethnic Tibetans to education in their mother tongue. The government policy, though called “bilingual education,” is in practice leading to the gradual replacement of Tibetan by Chinese as the medium of instruction in primary schools throughout the region, except for classes studying Tibetan as a language.
In his report, the Special Rapporteur on minority issues, Fernand de Varennes, provides a clear working definition of the concept of a minority in order to guide his activities and those of the United Nations. He describes a series of initiatives, including three regional forums that complement the Forum on Minority Issues. In the thematic section of his report, he sets out the often misunderstood language dimension of education for minorities, which emanates from the proper understanding and implementation of international human rights obligations.
General comment No. 20: Non-discrimination in economic, social and cultural rights (art. 2, para. 2, of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights)
The 51-page report, “‘Without Education They Lose Their Future’: Denial of Education to Child Asylum Seekers on the Greek Islands,” found that fewer than 15 percent of more than 3,000 school-age asylum-seeking children on the islands were enrolled in public school at the end of the 2017-2018 school year, and that in government-run camps on the islands, only about 100 children, all preschoolers, had access to formal education.