64 EDUCATION RIGHTS E/CN.4/2002/60. 24 CRC, Article 28 (1) (e) states, ‘take measures to encourage regular attendance at schools and the reduction of drop-out rates’. 25 CRC, Art. 2; UNESCO Convention, Art. 2; ICERD, Arts. 1(2) and 1(3). 26 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, Art. 22; International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families, Arts. 30 and 43. 27 Dilcia Yean y Violeta Bosica v. República Dominicana, caso 12.189, Informe 28/01, Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos. 28 ICERD, Art. 2. 29 CRC, Art. 28 (1) (e). 30 Ibid., Art. 3. 31 CRC, Art. 30 and ICCPR, Art. 27. That these standards require ‘positive measures of protection’ was recognized by the HRC, in its General Comment No. 23, The Rights of Minorities (Article 27), UN doc. CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.5, para. 6.2. 32 In the context of conflict prevention, the HRC recommended that the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia encourage ‘minority participation in the design, organization and functioning of the educational system’, UN doc. A/53/40 vol. I (1998) 55. For an overview of education rights in the peace process see, Wilson, D., Minority Rights in Education: Lessons for the European Union from Estonia, Latvia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Romania, Right to Education Project, 2002, www.right-to-education.org. 33 Art. 1(c), 2(b). 34 CERD, Concluding Observations on Croatia, UN doc. A/57/18 (2002) 24; Poland UN doc. A/52/18 (1997) 62; CESCR Concluding Observations on Czech Republic UN doc. E/C.12/1/Add.76, 2002; HRC, Concluding Observations on Hungary UN doc. A/57/40 vol. I, 2002, 60; CRC Committee, Concluding Observations: Slovakia UN doc. CRC/C/100, 2000, 100. 35 Kjeldsen, Busk Madsen and Pedersen v. Denmark, European Court of Human Rights, Series A, No. 23, (1976). 36 ICCPR, Art. 18(4), ICESCR, Art. 13(3). 37 ICESCR, Art. 13(4). 38 Kjeldsen, Busk Madsen and Pedersen v. Denmark, Report of 21 March 1975, B.21 (1979), p. 44. 39 Archbishop Anthony O. Okogie et al. v. The Attorney General of Lagos, 2 NCLR 337 (1981). 40 HRC, Blom v. Sweden, Communication 191/1985, HRC, Un doc. A/43/40, 4 April (1988), 211. 41 CESCR, Concluding Observations on Japan; Advisory Committee on the FCNM, Opinions on Austria and Armenia. 42 ICERD, Art. 2(2); HRC General Comment No.23, op.cit., para. 6.2 (positive measures of protection of the cultural, and linguistic identity of minorities could conceivably include