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Justiciability of the right to education 2013, para. 70
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- Promotional measures have special importance for ensuring the right to education of those who remain deprived of it on account of poverty, in particular extreme poverty. The adoption of the Declaration on the Rule of Law by the United Nations General Assembly, already mentioned, is a landmark in upholding the rights – including the right to education – of the poor to seek justice and get their right to education enforced.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Report on the Post-2015 Education Agenda 2013, para. 61
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- In the post-2015 development agenda, the key importance of the right to education as a powerful lever for eliminating the intergenerational transmission of poverty must figure prominently. The achievement of internationally agreed targets for poverty eradication will be missed and inequalities between countries and within societies will widen if education is not intertwined with the future goal on poverty eradication.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Report on the Post-2015 Education Agenda 2013, para. 60
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- In that respect, the Special Rapporteur would like to emphasize that education is a powerful tool in poverty eradication. A shortcoming of the report of the High- level Panel, however, is that such an approach is not reflected in the first illustrative goal on poverty eradication.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Report on the Post-2015 Education Agenda 2013, para. 34
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- In his remarks to the High-level Panel, the Secretary-General expressed his concern that too many primary school-age children are still not in school, and too many leave school without learning the most basic skills, and that education is hope and dignity, growth and empowerment, and the basic building block of every society and a pathway out of poverty.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Equality of opportunity in education 2011, para. 60
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- As poverty and social exclusion remain the major barriers to achieving the EFA, the use of direct financial support (through fellowship schemes, conditional cash transfers, or social assistance support for children of school age, for example) can be effective in enlarging access to education.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Equality of opportunity in education 2011, para. 59
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- A number of in-kind incentives, such as school meal programmes, especially in poverty-stricken areas, are implemented in order to ensure that income deprivation or poverty in general does not result in exclusion from schools. In broad terms, State investment in social-protection policies and its contribution to alleviating the burden on families and child poverty plays an important role in the promotion of education.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Report on the Post-2015 Education Agenda 2013, para. 63
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- That requires permanent support to the enjoyment of the universal right to education in the form of grants and bursaries to be provided to the children who are victims of exclusion, in particular those who are victims of extreme poverty. Such affirmative action and promotional measures have a normative basis in international human rights conventions. Article 13 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights provides for "an adequate fellowship system" among its provisions on the right to education.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Report on the Post-2015 Education Agenda 2013, para. 59
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- Poverty is the greatest obstacle to the enjoyment of the right to education as well as the right to development for nearly 1.3 billion people who still live in extreme poverty, and its elimination is indeed an overriding development concern.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Protecting education against commercialization 2015, para. 110
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- Building an inclusive education system is a main thrust of the future development agenda and requires measures to curb privatization, which breeds exclusion and inequities and jeopardizes human development. Privatization impedes access to free basic education for the poor and marginalized; preventing this must be an overriding development concern, since education is a key instrument for ending poverty. The post-2015 development agenda should contain firm commitments by Governments to fostering social justice and equity and accordingly devise national implementation strategies for effectively regulating privatization in education.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Privatization and the right to education 2014, para. 97
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- The existing disparities in education should not be aggravated by private providers catering to persons with means, to the detriment of the poor. Universal access to free, basic education for those excluded owing to poverty must be an overriding development concern. This access should be recognized as a key instrument for putting an end to the intergenerational transmission of poverty. It is imperative to create a global movement that urges all the Governments of the world to abide by the pledges made in the Millennium Declaration (2000) to ensure social justice and equity and to take seriously the task of regulating privatization in education in view of future pledges regarding the total eradication of poverty before 2030 and for the common well-being.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Privatization and the right to education 2014, para. 67
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- Privatizing education aggravates growing disparities in access to education, further marginalizing the poor. Available experience shows that the voucher system to help children from poor households to gain access to fee-charging private schools has failed in quality education and the Special Rapporteur would like to support the proposition in the OXFAM briefing paper entitled "Working for the Many: Public Services Fight Inequality" that it be discontinued. Similarly, user fees in education are counterproductive, since they take money out of the pockets of ordinary working families, bankrupting them when they need help the most and preventing them from sending their children to school.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Education
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Justiciability of the right to education 2013, para. 82k
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- [Bearing in mind the key importance of the justiciability of the right to education and its enforcement, and with a view to fostering protective as well as promotional role of adjudication mechanisms, the Special Rapporteur would like to offer the following recommendations:] The United Nations Declaration on the Rule of Law, adopted by the General Assembly on 24 September 2012, emphasized that States should “promote access to justice for all, including legal aid”. To facilitate this, individuals or groups who have been denied the right to education and cannot afford to bring litigation should have access to free legal aid to support their claims. While reducing fees for all rights-based claims in courts to a minimum, States should ensure that applications before quasi-judicial mechanisms are free for complainants. Protection of the right to education of the poor should be central to poverty reduction strategies.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Report on the Post-2015 Education Agenda 2013, para. 120
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- Poverty is the greatest obstacle to the enjoyment of the right to education as well as the right to development, and its elimination is an overriding development concern. A universal goal to eliminate poverty should be intertwined with a universal goal on education, in consideration of the key importance of the right to education as a powerful lever in the elimination of the intergenerational transmission of poverty. An implementation strategy should provide permanent support in the form of grants and bursaries to the children who remain deprived of education, in particular children who are victims of extreme poverty.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) 2012, para. 13
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- The United Nations Millennium Declaration (2000) and the accompanying Millennium Development Goals provide a global agenda for reducing poverty and improving lives, including through the promotion of access to education. Millennium Development Goal 2, to achieve universal primary education, is an enabling factor for technical and vocational education and training. Millennium Development Goal 3, to promote gender equality and empower women, is relevant for technical and vocational education and training, namely, to eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, and in all levels of education no later than 2015.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Equality of opportunity in education 2011, para. 53
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- Inadequate public transportation and inadequate school facilities can be determinant factors in excluding students from the education system. Persons living in poverty are particularly affected; the concentration of communities living in poverty in remote areas or in areas that are poorly served by transportation is a key factor limiting their access to education institutions. This is particularly acute in rural areas where schools are not present. These obstacles are commonly addressed through support for transportation of students, and by bringing schools closer to communities, often through improvements in transport infrastructure and the construction and expansion of education establishments in poorly served locations. Strategies also include the establishment of boarding schools.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Poverty
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Equality of opportunity in education 2011, para. 46
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- Poverty is one of the main obstacles to realizing the right to education. Similarly, education is recognized as a powerful lever to pull children out of poverty and empower them. Nationally and internationally agreed targets for poverty reduction will be missed, and inequalities among countries and within societies will widen, if progress towards Education for All is not accelerated. The magnitude of the challenge in promoting equal opportunities in education can be gauged by the fact that the number of people living in extreme poverty and hunger surpasses one billion.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Equality of opportunity in education 2011, para. 19
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- Reports indicate that the EFA agenda is falling behind, and the prospects of achieving Millennium Development Goals 2 and 3 on universal primary education and gender equality, respectively, are also bleak. The target of universal primary education is unlikely to be achieved by 2015. Inequalities, stigmatization and discrimination linked to economic status, gender, ethnicity, language, location and disability are also holding back progress. Social and economic status and sex appear as major factors of marginalization in education, with girls and those living in poverty being the most affected. “Poverty and gender inequalities magnify other disadvantages, and close doors to education opportunity for millions of children.”
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Financing education and update on education in emergencies 2011, para. 78
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- The failure of Governments to tackle persistent inequalities based on income, gender, location, ethnicity and language is one of the reasons for the limited progress in the realization of the Education for All goals as well as the Millennium Development Goals. Obstacles to schooling that are already present during periods of normality have their impact obviously magnified in emergency contexts. The costs of schooling can greatly increase and commuting between school and home often becomes very difficult and insecure, further excluding those living in poverty or more vulnerable to violence. In this sense, targeted initiatives identifying marginalized groups and addressing their specific needs are necessary to avoid widening inequalities in education.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Financing education and update on education in emergencies 2011, para. 47
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- Specific resources must be ensured to address the root causes of the exclusion from education of girls, those living in poverty or with disabilities, ethnic and linguistic minorities, migrants, and other marginalized and disadvantaged groups. Specific measures targeting important obstacles to education must be considered, including the abolition of school fees and the provision of subsidies for other costs, such as textbooks, uniforms and transportation. Temporary special measures to provide financial support to such groups through affirmative action have a normative basis in international human rights treaties. Particular attention must be paid to the principles of transparency and accountability in the management of education budgets.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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