A/HRC/29/30
Contents
Page
I.
Introduction .............................................................................................................
1–2
3
II.
Recent activities carried out by the Special Rapporteur .........................................
3–35
3
III.
Commercialization of education and its unfettered proliferation ...........................
36–39
5
IV.
Widespread concern with the baleful effects of privatization in education .............
40–46
6
A.
Privatization and the right to education as an entitlement ..............................
43–44
7
B.
Privatization and the right to education as empowerment .............................
45–46
7
V.
International legal framework for the right to education ........................................
47–55
8
VI.
Negative impacts of privatization on fundamental principles and norms
underpinning the right to education .........................................................................
56–64
9
A.
Non-discrimination ........................................................................................
57
10
B.
Equality of opportunity in education ..............................................................
58–59
10
C.
Social justice and equity ................................................................................
60–61
10
D.
Preserving and strengthening education as a public good ..............................
62–64
11
Differentiated public policy responses towards non-State
providers of education ............................................................................................
65–68
11
Private providers and national legislation ..............................................................
69–85
12
A.
Education as a public good ............................................................................
76–77
14
B.
Abolishing for-profit education ......................................................................
78–79
14
C.
Regulating school fees ....................................................................................
80
15
D.
Minimum standards and human rights values.................................................
81–82
15
E.
Some exemplary regulatory systems ..............................................................
83–85
15
IX.
Justiciability of the operations of private education providers ................................
86–92
16
X.
Regulatory framework for governing private providers,
centred on education as a public good .....................................................................
93–100
17
VII.
VIII.
A.
Prescriptive regulations ..................................................................................
98
18
B.
Prohibitive regulations ....................................................................................
99
19
C.
Punitive regulations .......................................................................................
100
19
Oversight and monitoring mechanisms ...................................................................
101–107
19
Monitoring privatization in education and United Nations
human rights treaty bodies ......................................................................................
105–107
20
XII.
Post-2015 development agenda ..............................................................................
108–110
20
XIII.
Conclusions and recommendations .........................................................................
111–132
21
XI.
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