On March 24th, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child - the body of 18 Independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by its State parties - issued recommendations to protect children’s rights in the digital environment.

In February, Right to Education Initiative welcomed three new members of staff to the team, and with their arrival began an expanded programme of work in support of the right to education in diverse contexts.

The new members of staff will support across core strategic areas and communications activity, expanding both our strategic capacity and mobilisation ability.

An international webinar to mark the second anniversary of the signing of the Abidjan Principles was celebrated on February 12th, 2021, bringing together many of the experts involved in the development of the Principles alongside multilevel human rights experts, education actors, and civil society representatives.

In November 2019, the Abidjan Principles on the right to education were selected at the Paris Peace Forum  as one of the ten ‘most promising governance projects’ that will be awarded support to scale-up.

On 21 October, the Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Koumbou Boly Barry, presented to the General Assembly (start at 1:44:20) her last report on th

More than 500 organisations and academics from from 87 countries, including RTE, have issued a statement today calling on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to stop promoting austerity and instead support policies that advance gender justice, reduce inequality, and put people and planet first.

A geographically representative group of 527 Civil Society Organisations, including RTE, has this week called for the resumption of the state monitoring procedure of the international human rights treaty bodies, which have been postponed since March due to COVID-19 restrictions.