A/68/294 event on vocational education, organized in Geneva on 12 March by Apprentissages sans frontières. 13. In April 2013, the Special Rapporteur participated in the international academic seminar entitled “Justice for quality education — quality education for democracy” organized in São Paulo, Brazil, by the São Paulo School of Judges and the Faculty of Law at the University of São Paulo, and other partners. On that occasion, he addressed the seminar during its opening session. A publication entitled “Justice for the quality of education” was also released. The Special Rapporteur also gave a closing address to the seminar on the ways in which the justiciability of the right to education and its enforcement could be strengthened. 14. Also in April 2013, the Special Rapporteur participated in the twelfth session of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, in Geneva, devoted to recognition through education and cultural rights, and spoke on the promotion of equality and opportunity in education for people of African descent. 15. In May 2013, the Special Rapporteur participated in the Second Global Meeting of the International Group on the Right to Education, organized by the National Academy for Educational Research in Taipei, Taiwan Province of China, and gave the opening address on the right to education and the scenario of international initiatives and post-2015 education-related international development goals. 16. In June 2013, the Special Rapporteur participated in a number of activities organized during the twenty-third session of the Human Rights Council in support of his report on the justiciability of the right to education, which he had presented on 31 May 2013 to the Council. 17. He was the lead speaker at a side event organized during the twenty-third session of the Human Rights Council by Ecuador, together with Brazil, India and Morocco, on a human rights-based approach to the right to education. On that occasion, he shared his views on the future of education and the post-2015 development agenda. The event was aimed at providing concrete examples of ways in which countries are implementing a human rights-based approach to education by establishing the right to education in their constitutions and legislative framework and, just as important, by implementing those rights through policies and government action. It also focused on remaining challenges. 18. During the international expert conference Vienna+20: Advancing the Protection of Human Rights held on 27 and 28 June 2013 in Vienna on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action adopted at the World Conference on Human Rights in 1993, the Special Rapporteur participated in a working group entitled “Mainstreaming human rights: a human rights-based approach to the post-2015 development agenda”. That experience was of special importance in the context of the present report. The discussions at the working group recognized the importance of the full realization of the right to education as one of the key objectives in the international development agenda beyond 2015. 19. The Special Rapporteur was a speaker at an expert meeting on Promoting a rights-based approach to financial regulation and economic recovery, organized in Vienna on 1 July 2013, where he focused on the importance of devoting necessary resources for the realization of the right to education. 6/26 13-42277