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.
Status juridique
Non-negotiated soft law
Organe
Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
Type de document
General Comment / Recommendation
Mode d'adoption
N.A.
Thèmes
Education
Equality & Inclusion
Personnes concernées
Men
Women
Année
1999
Type de paragraphe
Other
Reference
CESCR General Comment No. 13, The right to education (Art. 13) (1999), para. 32.