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Today, the Drafting Committee of the human rights Guiding Principles on private actors in education is launched an online public consultation on the draft of the Guiding Principles. The online consultation is open to any interested stakeholder. The draft Guiding Principles are available here, feedback can be submitted through an online questionnaire available here, or […]
August 29, 2018 in Right to education, Uncategorized by Sarah French
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From ESCR-Net The UN Human Rights Committee recently issued a positive decision in Toussaint v. Canada, a case examining the government’s life-threatening denial of health coverage based on Ms. Nell Toussaint’s irregular migrant status. Member organization Social Rights Advocacy Centre was a co-representative of the claimant in the case, and five members submitted a collective […]
August 28, 2018 in Uncategorized by admin
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In Memoriam: Odindo Opiata Odindo Opiata passed away in Nairobi, Kenya on 16 August 2014. Opiata was a leader in the field of human rights and social justice not only in Kenya but globally. He joined the Board of Directors of the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in 2013 after […]
August 15, 2018 in Uncategorized by admin
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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 […]
July 30, 2018 in Uncategorized by admin
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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 […]
July 23, 2018 in Uncategorized by admin
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(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, […]
July 6, 2018 in Uncategorized by Sarah French
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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 […]
July 6, 2018 in Right to education by Sarah French
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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 […]
July 2, 2018 in Uncategorized by Sarah French
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Join us for a look at the gendered dimensions of climate change impacts and the importance of a gender perspective in climate actions It is now clear that the impacts of climate change are not gender neutral. The effects of climate change are, and will be, felt most acutely by those segments of the population that […]
June 19, 2018 in Uncategorized by Sarah French
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We are very pleased to let you know that the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has released its Views in relation to MCTC v Ecuador, a case dealing with the right to social security in the context of unpaid work and gender discrimination. The Committee found a violation of Article 9 (right to […]
June 18, 2018 in Uncategorized by admin
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