38th session of the UN Human Rights Council 18 June to 6 July 2018 This Update provides a summary of the initiatives regarding economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights at the 38th session of the Human Rights Council (June 2018). It provides information about: Right to education Right to health Extreme poverty and human […]
Extra-territorial obligations (ETOs) are increasingly recognized as essential to ensuring a global framework built on human rights. As a consequence, civil society is demanding that ETOs be applied through human rights monitoring, enforcement, accountability and remedial mechanisms, resulting in a growing body of pronouncements enforcing ETOs in practice. This Working Paper, updated July 2018, outlines […]
(Genève, 6 juillet 2018) Le Conseil des droits de l’Homme des Nations Unies - le principal organe mondial des droits de l’Homme - a adopté hier une résolution soulignant avec un consensus sans précédent le besoin urgent de mieux réglementer les prestataires privés d’éducation afin de contrer les effets négatifs de la commercialisation de l’éducation, […]
Public statement (Geneva, 6 July 2018) The UN Human Rights Council – the top global human rights body – adopted yesterday a resolution emphasising with unprecedented consensus the urgent need to better regulate private education providers in order to address the negative impacts of the commercialisation of education, and to do so following human […]
A drafting committee of the Human Rights Guiding Principles on private school, composed of ten human rights experts, was recently constituted and met for the first time in Geneva on 11 June 2018. Since 2015, various education stakeholders have been working together to facilitate the process for development by experts of human rights Guiding Principles […]
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