UN RAPPORTEUR GIVES LECTURE ON RIGHT TO EDUCATION

ZAGREB, June 3 (Hina) - Government must ensure accessible, appropriate, acceptable and adaptable education and mere access to educational institutions is not the same as rights to education the UN Human Rights Commission's Special Rapporteur Katarina Tomasevski said in Zagreb on Tuesday. #L# Tomasevski, who is the rapporteur on education, spoke at a lecture in European House on the topic of "The Right to Education and Protection of Human Rights". The principle of inseparability of human rights demands adapting education rights within human rights legislation in total, Tomasevski said at the lecture. Governments' obligations towards human rights encompass the obligation for education to become available, accessible, acceptable and adaptable, Tomasevski added. She said that access to educational institutions is not the same as the right to an education. Instead it demands individual rights to education, protection of human rights and instrumentalisation of education for the purpose of enjoying human rights through education, she said. Tomasevski is a professor of international law and relations at Lund University in Sweden. She was appointed as the UN Human Rights Commission's special rapporteur in 1998. (hina) sp ms