Press release, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, available here and reproduced below.  

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Kishore Singh, has called on all UN Member States to focus on strengthening the right to education when seeking partnerships for education.

In recent years the UN has become increasingly vocal and condemnatory about the human rights impact of increasing private actor involvement in education systems around the world.

ActionAid UK, ActionAid International and the Right to Education Project are hosting an event to mark the launch of a report on how the British government could be violating the right to education with its support of for-profit private schools across Africa and south Asia.

Press release, London, 15^th October 2015

Organisations across the world and international campaigners have expressed concern that the British government could be violating the right to education with its support for the growth of private schools across Africa and south Asia.

The Right to Education Project, the Privatisation in Education Research Initiative, the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights are organising a panel discussion: Setting the Rules of the Game: how can regulations of private actors ensure the right to education in the post-2015 setting?

The event will take place on Monday 19th October at 18:00 in Clarke Hall at the Institute of Education, London.

Leaders have set an ambitious new global education goal: universal primary and lower secondary education for all by 2030. But many countries struggle to provide even primary education to marginalised children – mostly girls. Now leaders need to fund the goal or lose yet another generation to poverty.