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On 13 February 2024, international experts, academics, education stakeholders and representatives of regional and international human rights systems gathered to celebrate five years since the adoption of the Abidjan principles, a reference text and rapidly recognised authoritative resource on the right to education.
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) in collaboration with ESCR National Network Nepal, Justice & Research Institute (JuRI Nepal), PIL Lawyers Group- Nepalgunj and the Privatization in Education & Human Rights Consortium (PEHRC) held an online training on right to education for the Nepali lawyers.
The Brazilian Campaign for the Right to Education (BCRE), is actively participating in the formulation of the new National Education Plan (PNE) for the next decade and contributed to the organisation of the National Education Conference (CONAE) 2024, which took place between January 28 and January 30, 2024…
Five years have passed since the Abidjan Principles (APs) were adopted on the 13th of February, 2019, in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire to explain States’ existing legal obligations concerning the delivery of education. Since then, they have been recognised by multiple legal institutions and human rights bodies…
The 52nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, held in Geneva between 27 February - 4 April 2023, saw the presentation of a joint statement on academic freedom by France on behalf of 72 additional countries. The statement reaffirms the vital importance of academic freedom and calls on all states to protect and promote it as a cornerstone of democracy and human rights. The joint statement specifically references the Abidjan Principles.
Adopted during the second UNESCO World Conference on Early Childhood Care and Education (WCECCE) on 16 November 2022, the Tashkent Declaration and Commitments to Action for Transforming Early Childhood Care and Education refers to the Abidjan Principles on the human rights obligations of States to provide public education and to regulate private involvement in education (hereafter: Abidjan Principles) in the list of ‘ pioneering international and regional initiatives and statements’ applying to ECCE (para. 8).
To celebrate the 2nd anniversary of the Abidjan Principles which have become the worldwide reference text on the right to education, we are releasing a five-video series explaining what the Abidjan Principles are, entail, how they can be implemented and by whom. The series culminates with an animation video that we will launch on 12 February, as we hold our celebratory event which we hope you join!
(Paris, 13 February 2019) As today marks the first anniversary of the adoption of the Abidjan Principles on the right to education organisations around the world are celebrating the significant renewed momentum for the right to education that developed in just a year.
(13 February 2019, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire): A group of human rights experts from around the world adopted the Abidjan Principles on the right to education today, following three years of consultations, reflection and drafting. The Abidjan Principles seek to strengthen existing efforts to ensure that everyone’s right to education is protected in the context of growing, and often unregulated private actor involvement in education.
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