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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
Uganda’s Debt and the Right to Education
Type: Briefing & Policy Papers
Author(s): Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER) Uganda & Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR)
Publisher(s): Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER) Uganda & Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR)
Language(s): English
Privatisation of Early Childhood Care and Education: Trends and Policy Implications in Argentina
Type: Research
Author(s): Mercedes Mayol Lassalle & Carolina Semmoloni
Publisher(s): Public Education and Human Rights Coalition
Language(s): English, French, Spanish
Privatisation of Early Childhood Care and Education: Trends, Challenges and Human Rights Implications
Type: Research
Author(s): Rajakumari Michaelsamy
Publisher(s): Public Education and Human Rights Coalition
Language(s): English, French, Spanish
Teaching, AI, and the Human Core of Education : The Future Worth Defending
Type: Briefing & Policy Papers
Author(s): Armand Doucet
Publisher(s): Education International
Language(s): English, French, Spanish
Still Cooking With a Failed Recipe: A review of IMF country advice on social spending, public services, debt, tax and gender equality
Type: Research
Author(s): Roos Saalbrink et al.
Publisher(s): ActionAid, Education International, TaxEd Alliance
Language(s): English
Tax, Gender Equality, and the Cost of Education
Type: Video
Author(s): Ashina Mtsumi et al.
Publisher(s): ActionAid & TaxEd Alliance
Language(s): English
The right to education: progress, challenges and the road ahead
Type: Opinion Pieces
Author(s): Farida Shaheed
Publisher(s): Frontiers in Education
Language(s): English
Our Schools/Our Selves: Whose Schools? Tracking Education Privatization in Public Education
Type: Research
Author(s): Sue Winton and Sonia Martin (eds.)
Publisher(s): Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Language(s): English
Prioritising People in Fiscal Policy: Challenging Austerity, Reclaiming Public Services and Upholding Human Rights in Ghana
Type: Briefing & Policy Papers
Author(s): Aya Douabou
Publisher(s): Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR)
Language(s): English
Prioritising People in Fiscal Policy: Challenging Austerity, Reclaiming Public Services and Upholding Human Rights in Kenya
Type: Briefing & Policy Papers
Author(s): Roselyne Onyango
Publisher(s): Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR)
Language(s): English
Go public! Fund education
Type: Other
Author(s): Education International
Publisher(s): Education International
Language(s): English, French, Spanish
States' Human Rights Obligations to Finance Public Services: A Focus on Education and Health
Type: Briefing & Policy Papers
Author(s): Juana Barragán Díaz & Roselyne Onyango
Publisher(s): Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR)
Language(s): English
The Human Cost of Public Cuts in Africa
Type: Research
Author(s): Joan Njoroge et al.
Publisher(s): ActionAid
Language(s): English
Taxing Wealth More: How to invest in our schools and avoid cuts
Type: Opinion Piece
Author(s): Tax Justice UK
Publisher(s): Tax Justice UK
Language(s): English
PPPs policy brief by PEHRC
Type: Briefing & Policy Papers
Author(s): Frank Adamson & Anjela Taneja
Publisher(s): Public Education and Human Rights Coalition (PEHRC)
Language(s): English, Spanish, French
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
The Privatisation Playbook
Type: Research
Author(s): Huma Haq
Publisher(s): Public Services International & Education International (EI)
Language(s): English, Spanish, French
Global Report on Early Childhood Care and Education
Type: Research
Author(s): United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) & United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Publisher(s): United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) & United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Language(s): English
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