The adoption of temporary special measures intended to bring about de facto equality for men and women and for disadvantaged groups is not a violation of the right to non discrimination with regard to education, so long as such measures do not lead to the maintenance of unequal or separate standards for different groups, and provided they are not continued after the objectives for which they were taken have been achieved.
Condicón jurídica
Non-negotiated soft law
Organismo
Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
Tipo de documento
General Comment / Recommendation
Medio de adopción
N.A.
Temas
Education
Equality & Inclusion
Personas afectadas
Men
Women
Año
1999
Tipo de párrafo
Other
Reference
CESCR General Comment No. 13, The right to education (Art. 13) (1999), para. 32.