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Justiciability of the right to education 2013, para. 42
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- UNESCO’s Committee on Conventions and Recommendations (CR), which is a subsidiary organ of the Executive Board, considers the communications received by the Organization concerning cases and questions of alleged violations of human rights within UNESCO’s fields of competence. As such, CR examines all such communications received by the Organization. As a result, the right to education has been enforced in a number of cases in which it was violated. From 1978 to 2009, CR resolved 10 cases enabling victims From 1978 to 2009, the CR resolved 10 cases enabling victims to benefit from changes in certain education laws which were discriminatory towards ethnic or religious minorities, and 14 cases where victims were able to resume their education.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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