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PEHRC’s resource hub brings together key evidence on the challenges faced by our public education systems globally, including the privatisation in and of education, for policymakers, researchers and education advocates.
Key Resource on the Right to Education
The Abidjan Principles
The Abidjan Principles are a tool for governments, courts and education advocates to defend education as a human right.
Developed through extensive consultations across five continents, the Principles clarify States' obligations to provide public education and to regulate private actors.
Resource Library
Who owes who? External debts, climate debts and reparations in the Jubilee Year
Type: Other
Author(s): David Archer
Publisher(s): ActionAid
Language(s): English
Monitoring the Right to Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) from a Human Rights' Perspective
Type: Toolkits & Guides
Author(s): Rajakumari Michaelsamy
Publisher(s): Right to Education Initiative (RTE)
Language(s): English
Stolen futures: the impacts of tax injustice on the Right to Education
Type: Research
Author(s): Carolina Rodrigues Finette
Publisher(s): Tax Justice Network, Education Out Loud & TaxEd Alliance
Language(s): English
‘Build Us More Schools!’ - The Quest for Quality Free Education in Mabatini and Ngei Wards of Mathare, Nairobi
Type: Research
Author(s): Roselyne Onyango & Timothy Fish Hodgson
Publisher(s): Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR)
Language(s): English
The Conceptualisation and Regulation of APBET Schools in Kenya: Applying the Abidjan Principles on the Right to Education
Type: Research
Author(s): Roselyne Onyango
Publisher(s): Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR), Right to Education, Regional Education Learning Initiative (RELI)
Language(s): English
Fifty Years of Failure: The IMF, Debt and Austerity in Africa
Type: Briefing & Policy Papers
Author(s): Roos Saalbrink and David Archer
Publisher(s): ActionAid
Language(s): English
Transforming Education Financing: a toolkit for activists:
Type: Toolkits & Guides
Author(s): EI, GCE, ActionAid & TaxEd Alliance
Publisher(s): ActionAid
Language(s): Spanish, English, French, Arabic
Abidjan Principles Commentary – Principles 91-97
Type: Other
Author(s): Professor Ann Skelton & Dr Perekeme Mutu
Publisher(s): Oxford Human Rights Hub
Language(s): English
Abidjan Principles Commentary – Principles 47-48
Type: Other
Author(s): Dr Roman Zinigrad
Publisher(s): Oxford Human Rights Hub
Language(s): English
Abidjan Principles Commentary – Principles 29-33
Type: Other
Author(s): Associate Professor Jacqueline Mowbray
Publisher(s): Oxford Human Rights Hub
Language(s): English
Abidjan Principles Commentary – Principles 22-27
Type: Other
Author(s): Professor Sandra Fredman
Publisher(s): Oxford Human Rights Hub
Language(s): English
Abidjan Principle Commentary – Principles 15, 16, 34-37, 39-41, 42-45
Type: Other
Author(s): Professor Ann Skelton & Dr Perekeme Mutu
Publisher(s): Oxford Human Rights Hub
Language(s): English
Abidjan Principles Commentary – Principles 1, 4-7
Type: Other
Author(s): Professor Ann Skelton & Dr Perekeme Mutu
Publisher(s): Oxford Human Rights Hub
Language(s): English
Survival of the Richest: How we must tax the super-rich now to fight inequality
Type: Briefing & Policy Papers
Author(s): Christensen et al.
Publisher(s): Oxfam
Language(s): Arabic, English, French, Spanish
Financing Education course unit
Type: Other
Author(s): Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE)
Publisher(s): Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE)
Language(s): English
An ed-tech tragedy? Educational technologies and school closures in the time of COVID-19
Type: Research
Author(s): Mark West
Publisher(s): United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Language(s): English
Planning to fulfil the right to education: methodological guidelines and toolkit
Type: Toolkits & Guides
Author(s): Juana Barragán Díaz & Amélie Gagnon
Publisher(s): UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (UNESCO IIEP)
Language(s): English
Human rights to evaluate evidence on non-state involvement in education
Type: Briefing & Policy Papers
Author(s): Frank Adamson et al.
Publisher(s): United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Language(s): English
General comment 7 state obligations under the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights in the context of Private Provision of Social Services
Type: Briefing & Policy Papers
Author(s): African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR)
Publisher(s): African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR)
Language(s): English
Thematic Action Track 5 on Financing of education discussion paper (Transforming Education Summit 2022)
Type: Research
Author(s): United Nations Transforming Education Summit
Publisher(s): United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Language(s): English, Spanish, French
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