Resources on the Right to Education

Scope and interpretations of the Right to Education

• Right to pre-primary education: a global study, 2021

• Guidelines to strengthen the right to education in national frameworks, 2021

• The impact of climate displacement on the right to education, 2020

• Enforcing the right to education of refugees: a policy perspective, 2019

• Right to education handbook, 2019

• UNESCO and the right to education, 2018

• Protecting the right to education for refugees, 2017
• Operationalizing Sustainable Development Goal 4: a review of national legislations on the right to education, 2017
• Overview of the role of private providers in education in light of the existing international legal framework, 2015
• Conclusions of the expert consultation on the operational definition of basic education, 2009
• The Right to Education, 2008
• Inclusive Dimensions of the Right to Education: Normative Bases. Concept Paper, 2008
• The Right to Education. Monitoring standard-setting instruments of UNESCO, 2008
• The Right to Primary Education Free of Charge For All: ensuring compliance with international obligations, 2008
• A Human Rights-Based Approach to Education for All, (UNESCO, UNICEF), 2007
• The right to education for all: Ten Reasons Why The Convention against Discrimination in Education is highly significant in today's world 2007
• Enseignement primaire et gratuité (OIDEL), 2006 (in French)
• Comparative analysis. UNESCO Convention against Discrimination in Education and Articles 13 and 14 (Right to Education) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 2006
• Significance of the Convention against Discrimination in Education (1960), 2005
• Commentary on the Convention against Discrimination in Education, 2005
• Right to Education: Scope and Implementation General Comment 13 on the right to education (Art.13 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), 2003
• The Right to Education: An Analysis of UNESCO's Standard-setting Instruments, 2001
• World education report, 2000: The right to education. Towards education for all throughout life, 2000
   

How is the Right to Education implemented by countries?
 

• 10th Consultation of Countries on the Right to Education (2020)

  • Guidelines for the preparation of reports by Member States, 2019

• 9th Consultation of Countries on the Right to Education (2017)

  • The right to education for persons with disabilities, 2019
  • Indigenous peoples’ right to education, 2019 
  • Report presenting the results of the 9th Consultation
  • Presentation of 9th Consultation
  • Guidelines for the preparation of reports by Member States, 2016

• 8th Consultation of Countries on the Right to Education (2013)

  • Implementing the Right to Education. A Compendium of practical examples (2011-2013), 2016
  • The Right to Education and the Teaching Profession, 2015
  • The Right to Education for Persons with Disabilities, 2015
  • Girls’ and Women’s Right to Education, 2014
  • Results of the 8th Consultation (available in French), 2013
  • Extensive report presenting the results of the 8th Consultation of Member States (2011-2013) (available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish), 2013
  • Guidelines for the preparation of reports by Member States, 2011

• 7th Consultation of Countries on the Right to Education (2007)

  • Compendium of practical examples reported by Member States, 2010
  • Report presenting the results of the 7th Consultation of Member States, 2007

• Previous Consultations (1st-6th Consultations)

  • Report presenting the results of the 6th Consultation (1999)
  • Report presenting the results of the 5th Consultation (1991)
  • Report presenting the results of the 4th Consultation (1985)
  • Report presenting the results of the 3rd Consultation (1978)
  • Report presenting the results of the 2nd Consultation (1972)
  • Report presenting the results of the 1st Consultation (1968)
     

Support for the review of national laws and policies on the Right to Education

• The Right to Education: Law and Policy Review Guidelines, 2014
   

Experts’ reports on the Right to Education

• Reports of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education

  • The right to education for refugees, 2018 
  • Governance and the right to education, 2018
  • Inclusion, equity and the right to education, 2017
  • Realizing the right to education through non-formal education, 2017
  • Lifelong Learning and the right to education, 2016
  • Issues and challenges to the right to education in the digital age, 2016  
  • Public Private Partnerships and the right to education, 2015
  • Protecting education against commercialization, 2015  
  • Privatization and the right to education, 2014  
  • Assessment of the educational attainment of students, 2014
  • Report on the Post-2015 Education Agenda, 2013
  • Justiciability of the right to education, 2013
  • Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), 2012
  • Normative Action for Quality Education, 2012
  • Financing education and update on education in emergencies, 2011
  • Equality of opportunity in education, 2011
  • Sexual education, 2010
  • The Right to education of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers, 2010

• Reports of the Joint expert Group UNESCO (CR) / ECOSOC (CESCR) on the monitoring of the right to education

  • Role and Mandate of the Joint Expert Group UNESCO (CR) /ECOSOC (CESCR) on the Monitoring of the Right to Education, 2005
  • Final Reports
  • 2011 Report English - French
  • 2010 Report English - French
  • 2009 Report English - French
  • 2008 Report English - French
  • 2007 Report English - French
  • 2006 Report English - French
  • 2005 Report English - French
  • 2003 Report English – French