A/68/294 handbook”, by Education Above All, in New York. He gave a lecture at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, New York, entitled “Right to a quality education — norms and standards”. The Special Rapporteur attended the high-level launch of the Global Initiative on Education of the Secretary-General, Education First, and made a statement on the post-2015 education agenda. 8. In November 2012, he spoke on the human rights approach in international cooperation and public policies at a round table on human rights and development cooperation, organized jointly by the National University of Piura, Peru, and the University of Rioja, Spain. He also participated in the Fifth Budapest Human Rights Forum, and served as a panellist on human rights education and training. He was a special invitee to the World Innovation Summit for Education in Doha, where Sheikha Moza bint Nasser’s “Educate a Child” initiative was launched. In the same month, he made a statement at the first Global Education for All meeting in Paris, hosted by UNESCO, which brought Governments together to provide quality basic education to all children, youths and adults by 2015. 9. In December 2012, the Special Rapporteur participated in the fifty-fifth session of the Conférence des ministres de l’éducation des pays ayant le français en partage (CONFEMEN), held in N’Djamena, and gave a speech on the diversification of offers in education and the right to education. The Special Rapporteur emphasized the importance of the right to education in the context of reflections on the post-2015 Millennium Development Goals agenda. 10. During the same month, he also participated in the high-level advocacy event entitled “Stand up for Malala — girls’ education is a right”, organized in Paris by UNESCO in cooperation with Pakistan, to mark Human Rights Day. He also participated in the Steering Committee seminar of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa in Sèvres, France, and had a dialogue with the Bureau of the Association on key issues and international initiatives in the field of the right to education. 11. In January 2013, the Special Rapporteur participated as keynote speaker at a seminar on justiciability as an instrument for enforcing the right to education, organized by the Right to Education Forum in New Delhi, India. He participated as a panellist in the first seminar on human rights education and morality, organized as part of a series of seminars on the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training by the Centre for Research on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law of the University of Paris II, with the support of the French National Commission for UNESCO. He also participated in a working group on education and development organized by the Education and Development wing of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France, in cooperation with the Agence française de développement for reflections on the post-2015 development agenda. 12. In March 2013, the Special Rapporteur attended the High-level Panel on Human Rights Mainstreaming, with a focus on the areas of the right to education, organized by the Human Rights Council. He made the opening remarks at the side event on education for global citizenship, which was a follow-up to the SecretaryGeneral’s initiative, Education First, organized on 11 March in Geneva by the International Organization for the Right to Education and Freedom of Education in cooperation with the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva. He was the keynote speaker at the side 13-42277 5/26