EDUCATION RIGHTS
3
ICESCR Arts. 6(2) and 13(2) (b) on the right to vocational education and training.
4
Daudet, Y and Singh, K., The Right to Education: an analysis of UNESCO’s standard
setting instruments, Paris, UNESCO, 2001, p. 10.
5
Saltarelli, D and Bush, K.D., The Two Faces of Education in Ethnic Conflict, Florence,
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre (2000) p ix.
6
See for example, Rutayisire, J., Kabano, J. and Rubagiza, J., ‘Redefining Rwanda's Future:
The role of curriculum in social reconstruction,’ Chapter 7 in Tawil, S. and Harley, A.
(eds), Education, Conflict and Social Cohesion, Geneva, UNESCO International Bureau of
Education, 2004.
7
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. Available at www.right-to-education.org
8
Developed by the UN Special Rapporteur (Preliminary Report, UN doc. E/CN.4/1999/49
and Progress Report, UN doc. E/CN.4/2000/5) and in CESCR, General Comment No.13,
The Right to Education, UN doc. E/C.12/1999/10, para. 6. For an overview, see the series
of primers prepared by Katarina Tomasevski for the Right to Education Project. Available
at www.right-to-education.org.
9
African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights; African Charter on the Rights and
Welfare of the Child.
10
Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (San Salvador Protocol).
11
European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms,
Protocol 1.
12
Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention (ILO Convention 169), Articles 26-31;
Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and
Linguistic Minorities, Arts. 4(3) and (4); European Framework Convention for the
Protection of National Minorities, Arts. 12-14.
13
CESCR General Comment No. 3, UN doc. E/1991/23, annex III, para 9, 1990.
14
See ICESCR Art. 2(1); CRC, Article 4; San Salvador Protocol, Article 1.
15
CESCR General Comment No.3, op.cit., paras 11–13.
16
Ibid., para. 9.
17
CESCR General Comment No.13, op.cit., para. 57.
18
ICESCR, Art. 13 (2)(a), CRC, Article 28 (1)(a).
19
ICESCR, Art. 14 and CESCR General Comment No.11, on Plans of Action for Primary
Education, UN doc. E/CN.12/1999/4.
20
‘Annual Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education’, UN doc.
21
CESCR General Comment No.11, op.cit., para. 7.
22
CESCR General Comment No.13, op.cit., para. 14.
23
‘Annual Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education’, UN doc.
E/CN.4/2004/45, para. 27.
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