A/70/342 10. From 4 to 6 November, he participated in the 2014 World I nnovation Summit for Education in Doha on the theme of “Imagine-create-learn: creativity at the heart of education”. 11. From 10 to 12 November, the Special Rapporteur attended the World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development, held in Aichi -Nagoya, Japan, where he was a panellist at a plenary session. 12. On 20 November, he gave the inaugural address at a meeting on “service learning” organized by the University of La Rioja, Spain. 13. On 25 November, he gave a guest lecture at Queen’s Univer sity in Belfast, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, on the theme of “State responsibility for the provision of quality education to every child”. 14. From 28 to 30 November, the Special Rapporteur attended a meeting of the World Human Rights Forum in Marrakech, Morocco, interacting with many civil society organizations and focusing on the right to education in his address at the closing ceremony. 15. On 16 December, he addressed issues in quality education at the 2014 International Conference of NGOs on the post-2015 development agenda, hosted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris. 16. From 9 to 11 January 2015, the Special Rapporteur attended the World Congress on International Law, organized by the Indian Society of International Law in New Delhi, and co-chaired a plenary session on the implementation of international law. 17. On 15 January, he was a lead speaker at an event organized by the Right to Education Forum in India, in cooperation with the UNESCO New Delhi office, in connection with his report of 2014 to the General Assembly. 18. On 23 February, he spoke at the opening of the fifth World Assembly of the Global Campaign for Education, in Johannesburg, South Africa, underlining the need for safeguarding education against the forces of privatization. The World Assembly in its deliberations aligned itself fully with the recommendations he had made in his report of 2014 to the General Assembly. 19. On 18 March, the Special Rapporteur participated in a round table on privatization in education and social justice, organized at the Institut d’études politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris to examine issues of privatization in education. He also gave a public lecture on the theme of “Privatization in education: a new challenge for human rights in developing countries”. 20. On 20 March, he addressed the challenges of effective realization of the right to education in its interface with the right to development, as a panellist at an event on the implementation of economic and social rights and State obligations under the human rights conventions, organized by the Permanent Mission of Fiji to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva. 21. On 26 March, he gave a keynote address focusing on preserving education as a public good in the face of the negative effects of privatization at a session on the theme of the right to quality education and the post-2015 development agenda, organized on the occasion of the World Social Forum in Tunis. 4/25 15-12538