A/HRC/14/25
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
16 April 2010
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fourteenth session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
The right to education of migrants, refugees and asylumseekers
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education,
Vernor Muñoz*
Summary
This report is submitted in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 8/4.
The current Special Rapporteur decided to devote his sixth and last annual report to the
question of the right to education of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers. The focus is on
those who have crossed national borders, who generally are at risk of marginalization and
specifically to discrimination in the provision of education. The report aims to inform and
assist Governments and interested parties in their efforts to address these matters and
develop best practices so as to ensure the enjoyment of the currently unfulfilled right to
education for migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers.
The report addresses six core issues, the consideration of which follows an analysis
of the contextual background. Attention to these issues is viewed by the Special Rapporteur
as indispensable in meeting the educational challenges and opportunities related to
migration. These core, but inevitably interrelated, themes are: the legal and normative
framework; social and cultural issues; language and curriculum; teachers; accreditation;
and learning for life.
* This document is submitted late in order to include up-to-date information.
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