A/HRC/29/30
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
10 June 2015
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-ninth session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education,
Kishore Singh
Protecting the right to education against commercialization *
Summary
The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolutions 17/3,
23/4 and 26/27. The Special Rapporteur looks with concern at the rapid increase in the
number of private education providers and the resulting commercialization of education,
and examines the negative effects of this on the norms and principles underlying the legal
framework of the right to education as established by international human rights treaties.
He highlights the repercussions of privatization on the principles of social justice and
equity and analyses education laws as well as evolving jurisprudence related to
privatization in education. Finally, he offers a set of recommendations on developing
effective regulatory frameworks for controlling private providers of education and
safeguarding education as a public good.
* Late submission.
GE.15-09392 (E)