A/71/358 24. On 23 May, he attended the Global Skill Development Meet, organized by the Europe India Foundation for Excellence at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, where he interacted with the organizers and participants on the right to educa tion and on skills development. 25. From 20 to 22 June, he addressed the opening session of the International Conference on the Use of Contract Teachers, convened by the International Task Force on Teachers for Education for All in Addis Ababa, highlightin g the abusive practices in the employment of teachers in private schools that undermine their status, and the need to regulate this phenomenon. 26. On 23 June, the Special Rapporteur addressed the opening of a conference on the implementation of the Continental Education Strategy for Africa (2016-2025) convened by the African Commission in Addis Ababa. He warned against the mushrooming of privatization leading to violation of the right to education and the need to regulate privatization and ensure that education was safeguarded as a public good. 27. On 27 and 28 June, he addressed a round table on public -private partnerships in crisis-affected and fragile States organized by the Open Society Foundations in New York. Recalling his report on the right to education and public-private partnerships (A/70/342), presented to the General Assembly in October 2015, he underlined the need to preserve social interest in education, as well as to promote international cooperation in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. 28. On 15 July, the Special Rapporteur gave the inaugural address at a national seminar on the social dimensions of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development organized by the Council for Social Development in New Delhi. He underlined the key importance of social justice and equity with social responsibility in education to overcome disparities in access to education. 29. On 20 July, he gave a talk at the National University of Educational Pla nning and Administration, in New Delhi, on financing education and the implementation of the Education 2030 agenda. He emphasized the need to mobilize maximum resources for the realization of the right to education, while recognizing the importance of social responsibility in education, as well as of philanthropy. 30. On 21 July, the Special Rapporteur addressed the opening of an event organized by Education International to launch its report on the privatization of education in India, in particular the negative effects of the initiative by the government of Andhra Pradesh to develop a partnership with Bridge Academy. He called upon public authorities to safeguard education from commercialization. 31. On 26 July, he addressed a high-level panel convened by civil society organizations in Dakar on the Education 2030 agenda and on financing education, and emphasized the key importance of domestic resource mobilization. 32. On 29 and 30 July, the Special Rapporteur participated in a forum on the right to education and several high-level events organized in Haiti by the Latin American Campaign for the Right to Education and the Regroupement pour l ’éducation pour toutes et pour tous, with the support of the Office of Citizen Protection in Haiti. He spoke with the Minister of National Education, the President of the Senate Education Commission and with civil society organizations about giving paramount 16-14910 7/26