At its 193rd session (November 2013) the Executive Board, having established its Committee on Conventions and Recommendations, gave it the following terms of reference:
‘The Executive Board,
1. Recalling 98 EX/Decision 9.6 (II), whereby it defined, in paragraph 12, the terms of reference of the Committee on Conventions and Recommendations in Education, namely:
(a) to examine periodic reports by Member States on their implementation of the Convention and Recommendation against Discrimination in Education;
(b) to examine communications addressed to UNESCO in connection with specific cases alleging a violation of human rights in education, science and culture;
(c) to examine the report of the Joint ILO/UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers*,
2. Also recalling 104 EX/Decision 3.3, whereby it decided that the Committee would thenceforth be designated the “Committee on Conventions and Recommendations” and established the conditions and procedures for consideration of communications received by the Organization concerning cases and questions of violations of human rights within UNESCO’s fields of competence,
3. Further recalling its decision, for this biennium, to evaluate and review the methods of work of the Committee as set forth in 192 EX/19,
4. Renews the terms of reference mentioned above, and decides that the Committee will also consider all questions entrusted to the Executive Board concerning the implementation of UNESCO’s standard-setting instruments, in accordance with Article 18.1 of the Rules of Procedure concerning recommendations to Member States and international conventions, ensuring in particular the monitoring of the conventions and recommendations* referred to, respectively, in Part II of 177 EX/Decision 35 and in 34 C/Resolution 87."
* Now the Joint ILO-UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel (CEART)
** These conventions and recommendations are:
- Convention against Discrimination in Education (Paris, 14 December 1960);
- Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property (Paris, 14 November 1970);
- Convention on Technical and Vocational Education (Paris, 10 November 1989);
- Recommendation against Discrimination in Education (14 December 1960);
- Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers (5 October 1966);
- Recommendation concerning Education for International Understanding, Cooperation and Peace and Education relating to Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (19 November 1974);
- Recommendation on the Status of Scientific Researchers (20 November 1974);
- Recommendation on the Development of Adult Education (26 November 1976);
- Revised Recommendation concerning the International Standardization of Educational Statistics (27 November 1978);
- Recommendation concerning the Status of the Artist (27 October 1980);
- Recommendation on the Recognition of Studies and Qualifications in Higher Education (13 November 1993);
- Recommendation concerning the Status of Higher-Education Teaching Personnel (11 November 1997);
- Revised Recommendation concerning Technical and Vocational Education (2 November 2001);
- Recommendation concerning the Promotion and Use of Multilingualism and Universal Access to Cyberspace (15 October 2003).
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