Transforming Education Pre-Summit 29 June 2022 UNESCO HQ
The need to expand the international legal framework
Right to Education Initiative, UNESCO, OMEP, Human Rights Watch, CLADE, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, ActionAid, and Global Campaign for Education
Education has drastically changed since the adoption of the UNESCO Convention against Discrimination in Education (1960) and other UN treaties that guarantee the right to education.
The development of distance learning and the use of edtech, accentuated by the Covid-19 pandemic, the increasing human movement, and the alarming impacts of climate change are rapidly transforming the education landscape. In addition, SDG4 gave a new impetus to lifelong learning which is recognised by the Futures of education Report as taking place across different times and spaces. At the same time, major challenges remain, including huge inequalities across all levels of education.
As UNESCO is reflecting on the evolving dimensions of the right to education, this side-meeting proposes to focus on the need to expand the international legal framework to address the existing and emerging education challenges in order to build the foundation for the transformation of education, highlighting areas that are required to be urgently addressed. Its specific objective is to foster this dialogue in the context of transformation of education.
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Speakers: UNESCO, Right to education Initiative, UN SR, OMEP, HRW, CLADE, GCE, ActionAid