The Right to Education Inititiave, together with more than 115 organisations, endorses the civil society collective statement on public services below.

We demand a change in policies that prioritises sustainable public funding and rejects the privatisation of education and other essential services. 

On 30 and 31 October 2025, the UN Human Rights Council will hold its Social Forum in Geneva with a focus on the contribution of education to the respect, promotion, protection and fulfilment of all human rights for all.

On 8 September 2025, on the eve of the International Day to Protect Education from Attack, the Right to Education Initiative (RTE), together with the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA), and the support of the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), and the

On 7 July 2025, the UN Human Rights Council adopted by consensus the Resolution A/HRC/RES/59/9 on the right to education.

On 24 June 2025, on the occasion of the 59th session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), where the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education presented her report, and building on the 2025 HRC Annual Day Meeting on the Rights of the Child on the theme of early childhood development, the Right to Education Initiative (RTE), together with UNESCO, UNICEF and the Office of the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education, co-organised in Geneva a side-event to present and discuss tools and guidance for the imple

In June 2025, at the 59th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Farida Shaheed, presented her thematic report on the right to be safe in education. She strongly urged States and other stakeholders, ‘to recognise the right of everyone to be safe in education as an integral element of the right to education’. 

On 23 June, United Nations Public Services Day, we - more than thirty civil society organisations from around the world - are issuing a joint statement. A few days before the Financing for Development Conference (FFD4) in Seville, we call on governments to act collectively to reform the international financial architecture and guarantee the right of all to quality public services, including education.

On 16 April 2025, the Right to Education Initiative (RTE) held an online event to mark the launch of a new guide focused on Monitoring the Right to Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) from a Human Rights' Perspective.

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