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.
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.
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