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Education: an enabling human right. Vernor Muñoz. Everyone is entitled to the human right to education. Normative Framework. UDHR CESCR CCPR CRC CEDAW CEAFRD C169 ILO
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Education: an enabling human right Vernor Muñoz
Normative Framework UDHR CESCR CCPR CRC CEDAW CEAFRD C169 ILO Jomtien, Tailandia (1990), Dakar, Senegal (2000), Millenium Summit (2000), Mascate, Oman (2014), World Meeting Incheon, Korea (2015), Summit SustainableDevelopment (2015).
Conceptual Framework Availability Acceptability Acceptability Adaptability Accountability
2000 100-120 million OOS children 800 millionilliterateadults 2017 64-78 million OOS children 640 millionilliterateadults Improvements
But… Never before, so many educated people had killed so many others!
The Commitee on the Rights on the Child Education transcends access to formal schooling and embraces the right to a specific quality of education and a broad range of life experiences and learning processes that enable children, individually and collectively, to develop their personalities, talents and abilities and to live a full and satisfying life within society.
Aims of Education • Content of education is a core component of the right to education: knowledge buildng/cognitive development should have intentional direction according to HR principles (CESCR, CRC, CEDAW) • Education ensures the transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies: looking for non market-based reductivist curriculum • Free, quality education is crucial for breaking cycles of poverty and transforming societies. • Education plays a critical role for sustainable development, and fostering citizenship by developing awareness and critical thinking (SDG4.7) • Education should be integrated into urban planning so that the educational needs and rights of all are met as urban populations change. • Education and lifelong learning are needed to ensure production and consumption patterns are sustainable. • Local and indigenous knowledge contribute to ecosystem functioning, disaster early warning systems, and climate change adaptation and resilience.
Right to education is not only a universal human right, but also a foundation of ecology and development