Resources on the right to education

• Minding the data: protecting learners’ privacy and security, 2022
• From rights to country-level action: results of the tenth consultation of Member States on the 1960 Convention and Recommendation, 2022  
• 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  
• The Convention against Discrimination in Education: Ten reasons why this Convention is crucial to ensure the right to education for all children, youth and adults, 2020  
• Enforcing the right to education of refugees: a policy perspective, 2019  
• Right to education handbook, 2019  
• The right to education for persons with disabilities, 2019  
• Indigenous peoples’ right to education, 2019   
• Report presenting the results of the 9th Consultation, 2018  
• 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  
• Implementing the Right to Education. A Compendium of practical examples (Based on the 8th Consultation, 2011-2013), 2016   
• The Right to Education and the Teaching Profession (Based on the 8th Consultation, 2011-2013), 2015  
• The Right to Education for Persons with Disabilities (Based on the 8th Consultation, 2011-2013), 2015  
• Overview of the role of private providers in education in light of the existing international legal framework, 2015  
• Girls’ and Women’s Right to Education (Based on the 8th Consultation 2011-2013), 2014  
• Extensive report presenting the results of the 8th Consultation of Member States (2011-2013) (available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish), 2013  
• Compendium of practical examples reported by Member States for the 7th Consultation, 2010  
• 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  
• Report presenting the results of the 7th Consultation of Member States, 2007  
• A Human Rights-Based Approach to Education for All, (UNESCO, UNICEF), 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  

• The right to education of migrants, 2021  
• The cultural dimensions of the right to education, or the right to education as a cultural right, 2021  
• Interrelations between the right to education and the rights to water and sanitation, 2020  
• Impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the right to education; concerns, challenges and opportunities, 2020  
• Contributions of the right to education to the prevention of atrocity crimes and mass or grave violations of human rights, 2019  
• The implementation of the right to education and Sustainable Development Goal 4 in the context of the growth of private actors in education, 2019  
• The right to education for refugees (link is external), 2018   
• Governance and the right to education (link is external), 2018  
• Inclusion, equity and the right to education (link is external), 2017  
• Realizing the right to education through non-formal education(link is external), 2017  
• Lifelong Learning and the right to education (link is external), 2016  
• Issues and challenges to the right to education in the digital age (link is external), 2016    
• Public Private Partnerships and the right to education (link is external), 2015  
• Protecting education against commercialization (link is external), 2015    
• Privatization and the right to education (link is external), 2014    
• Assessment of the educational attainment of students (link is external), 2014  
• Report on the Post-2015 Education Agenda (link is external), 2013  
• Justiciability of the right to education (link is external), 2013  
• Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) (link is external)), 2012  
• Normative Action for Quality Education(link is external), 2012  
• Financing education and update on education in emergencies (link is external), 2011  
• Equality of opportunity in education (link is external), 2011  
• Sexual education (link is external), 2010  
• The Right to education of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers (link is external), 2010  

All reports can be found on the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights web site.