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Implementing the Right to Education: a Compendium of Practical Examples Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: UNESCO This publication is a compilation of practical examples of measures taken by Member States in implementing the provisions of the UNESCO Convention and Recommendation against Discrimination in Education. These examples are taken from national reports submitted to UNESCO for the Eighth Consultation of Member States on the implementation of these two international standard-setting instruments. The Convention and the Recommendation celebrated their fi fty-fi fth anniversary in 2015. Both express the fundamental principles of non-discrimination and equality of educational opportunities enshrined in UNESCO’'s Constitution. Since these fundamental principles were essential in the process of Education for All, the instruments have naturally become the cornerstone of this important domain.The Education 2030 development agenda will provide further opportunity to mobilise the Convention and the Recommendation in guiding Member States in the effective realization of the right to education. This compendium seeks to provide an overview of promising measures taken to ensure equality of educational opportunities and non-discrimination, while also serving as a tool for information sharing and advocacy in connection with the right to education. 
Her Atlas: Interactive Advocacy Tool on Girls’ and Women’s Right to Education Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: UNESCO Many girls and women cannot exercise their right to education due to gender inequality and discriminatory practices. Poverty, early marriage, and gender-based violence are just some of the many reasons behind the high percentage of global female illiteracy and school drop-outs. Strengthening the right of girls and women to quality education is key to eliminate discrimination and to achieve equal rights between genders. This cannot be achieved without solid national legal frameworks that are rightsbased, gender responsive and inclusive. This is where HerAtlas comes in. HerAtlas, is a first of its kind online tool that maps the right to education of girls and women. It aims to enhance public knowledge and monitor the status of national constitutions, legislation and regulations related to education rights for girls and women to encourage countries to take action, strengthen their laws and policies, and lead to long term change. Concrete changes are already apparent. In 2019, 4% of countries were explicitly restricting the right to education of married, pregnant, and parenting girls. This has dropped to 2% in 2022, benefiting millions of girls who can now legally attend school when they marry or become pregnant. Son Atlas: Outil de plaidoyer interactif sur le droit à l’éducation des filles et des femmes Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: UNESCO De nombreuses filles et femmes ne peuvent pas exercer leur droit à l'éducation en raison des inégalités entre les genres et des pratiques discriminatoires. La pauvreté, les mariages précoces et les violences basées sur le genre ne sont que quelques-unes des nombreuses raisons qui expliquent le pourcentage élevé d'analphabétisme et de décrochage scolaire chez les filles et les femmes dans le monde. Le renforcement du droit des filles et des femmes pour une éducation de qualité est essentiel pour éliminer la discrimination et parvenir à l'égalité des droits entre les genres. Ceci ne peut être réalisé sans des cadres juridiques nationaux solides, basés sur les droits, sensibles au genre et inclusifs. C'est là qu'intervient SonAtlas. SonAtlas est un outil en ligne, le premier du genre, qui cartographie le droit à l'éducation des filles et des femmes. Il vise à améliorer les connaissances du public et à surveiller le statut des constitutions, législations et réglementations nationales relatives aux droits à l'éducation des filles et des femmes, afin d'encourager les pays à agir, à renforcer leurs lois et leurs politiques et à entraîner un changement à long terme. Des changements concrets sont déjà visibles. En 2019, 4 % des pays restreignaient explicitement le droit à l'éducation des filles mariées, enceintes et jeunes mères. Ce chiffre a chuté à 2 % en 2022, au profit de millions de filles qui peuvent désormais aller à l'école en toute légalité lorsqu'elles se marient ou sont enceintes ou jeunes mères. 
Protect Her Rights, Strengthen Your Laws: Her Atlas; Status Report on Girls’ and Women’s Right to Education Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: UNESCO UNESCO’s Her Education, our future initiative, Her Atlas was launched in 2019 with the aim to enhance public knowledge and monitor the status of national constitutions, legislation and regulations related to girls’ and women’s education rights in order to encourage countries to take actions to improve their legal frameworks. Three years after its launch, the research phase has been completed: overall, the legal frameworks of 196 countries have been thoroughly analyzed to evaluate the level of protection of girls’ and women’s right to education around the world. In an interactive world map format, Her Atlas uses a color-coded scoring system to monitor 12 indicators of legal progress towards gender equality in the right to education. This report marks the completion of the first research phase and intends to highlight some key trends outlined by the research work, and to emphasize examples of legal provisions regarding some aspects of girls’ and women’s right to education guaranteed by States’ domestic laws. 
UNESCO Futures of Education Report Explained by Members of the International Commission Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: UNESCO Initiated by UNESCO, the International Commission on the Futures of Education has prepared a new report on how education can best shape the future of humanity and the planet. In this video, members of the Commission and its chair explain the main recommendations and defining features of their report, Reimagining our futures together: A new social contract for education. The report is part of UNESCO’s Futures of Education initiative which aims to rethink education and shape the future. The initiative is catalyzing a global debate on how knowledge, education and learning need to be reimagined in a world of increasing complexity, uncertainty, and precarity. 
Together for Peace: Silent Manga Catalogue Year of publication: 2020 Author: Walden Schertz | Jeremy Clay | Santibhap Ussavasodhi Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok | Coamix This Together for Peace Silent Manga Catalogue is a compilation of silent manga – manga stories told entirely through illustration without the use of dialogue. These works of art were selected from 274 entries submitted by artists in 117 countries worldwide to join SILENT MANGA AUDITION® Round 13 held under the theme Together for Peace, in collaboration with UNESCO Bangkok, the Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education. Silent manga is a powerful medium of communication in the Asia-Pacific. Although the region is the most diverse in the world, it can be enjoyed by anyone regardless of their background. Silent manga has no language barrier. These works showcase different reflections of peace as expressed by artists around the world while conforming to the Japanese manga style. 
Reimagining Our Futures Together: A New Social Contract for Education Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: International Commission on the Futures of Education | UNESCO Our humanity and planet Earth are under threat. The pandemic has only served to prove our fragility and our interconnectedness. Now urgent action, taken together, is needed to change course and reimagine our futures. This report by the International Commission on the Futures of Education acknowledges the power of education to bring about profound change. We face a dual challenge of making good on the unfulfilled promise to ensure the right to quality education for every child, youth and adult and fully realizing the transformational potential of education as a route for sustainable collective futures. To do this, we need a new social contract for education that can repair injustices while transforming the future.This new social contract must be grounded in human rights and based on principles of non-discrimination, social justice, respect for life, human dignity and cultural diversity. It must encompass an ethic of care, reciprocity, and solidarity. It must strengthen education as a public endeavour and a common good.This report, two years in the making and informed by a global consultation process engaging around one million people, invites governments, institutions, organizations and citizens around the world to forge a new social contract for education that will help us build peaceful, just, and sustainable futures for all.The visions, principles, and proposals presented here are merely a starting point. Translating and contextualizing them is a collective effort. Many bright spots already exist. This report attempts to capture and build on them. It is neither a manual nor a blueprint but the opening up of a vital conversation. 
Reimaginar juntos nuestros futuros: un nuevo contrato social para la educación Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: International Commission on the Futures of Education | UNESCO La humanidad y el planeta Tierra están amenazados. La pandemia solo ha servido para demostrar nuestra fragilidad y nuestra interconexión. Ahora es necesario actuar urgentemente, de forma conjunta, para cambiar el rumbo y reimaginar nuestros futuros. Este informe de la Comisión Internacional sobre los Futuros de la Educación reconoce el poder de la educación para provocar un cambio profundo. Nos enfrentamos a un doble reto: cumplir la promesa de garantizar el derecho a una educación de calidad para todos los niños, jóvenes y adultos, y aprovechar plenamente el potencial transformador de la educación como vía para un futuro colectivo sostenible. Para ello, necesitamos un nuevo contrato social para la educación que pueda reparar las injusticias, al tiempo que transforma el futuro. Este nuevo contrato social debe basarse en los derechos humanos y en los principios de no discriminación, justicia social, respeto a la vida, dignidad humana y diversidad cultural. Debe incluir una ética de cuidado, reciprocidad y solidaridad. Debe reforzar la educación como un proyecto público y un bien común. Este informe, que se ha elaborado en dos años y se ha basado en un proceso de consulta mundial en el que han participado alrededor de un millón de personas, invita a gobiernos, instituciones, organizaciones y ciudadanos de todo el mundo a forjar un nuevo contrato social para la educación que nos ayude a construir un futuro pacífico, justo y sostenible para todos. Las visiones, los principios y las propuestas que aquí se presentan deben considerarse simplemente un punto de partida. Traducirlos y contextualizarlos es un esfuerzo colectivo. Existen ya muchos aspectos positivos. Este informe intenta recogerlos y aprovecharlos. No se trata de un manual ni de un modelo, sino de un punto de partida para una conversación fundamental. 
Report on the Right to Education in Human Mobility in Central America, the Dominican Republic and Mexico: Towards Inclusive, Equitable, Quality Education With Lifelong Learning Opportunities Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO San José | Central American Educational and Cultural Coordination | Central American Integration System Although human mobility is not a new phenomenon, data indicate that the number of people in this situation has reached its highest point since records began and there are no signs that the trend will decrease in the coming years. This scenario threatens to become a structural situation, strongly impacting the right to education and educational systems. Therefore, it is imperative that States and other key actors make a deep commitment to guarantee the fundamental right to education of people in situations of mobility through urgent measures, in line with the provisions of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. For this reason, the preparation of this Report on the right to education of people in situations of mobility in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and the Dominican Republic has been undertaken. The Report is an effort by UNESCO and the Central American Educational and Cultural Coordination (CECC/SICA) in collaboration with UNHCR, IOM, UNICEF, the Norwegian Refugee Council and RET International, and with the technical support of the SES Foundation and the UNESCO Chair for the Development of International Education at George Washington University (United States). Informe sobre el derecho a la educación en la movilidad humana en América Central, República Dominicana y México: Hacia una educación inclusiva, equitativa, de calidad y con oportunidades de aprendizaje permanente Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO San José | Central American Educational and Cultural Coordination | Central American Integration System Si bien la movilidad humana no es un fenómeno nuevo, los datos indican que la cantidad de personas en esta situación ha alcanzado su punto más alto desde que se tiene registro y no hay indicios de que la tendencia vaya disminuyendo en los próximos años. Este escenario amenaza con volverse una situación estructural, impactando fuertemente en el derecho a la educación y los sistemas educativos. Por ello, es perentorio el compromiso profundo de los Estados y otros actores clave para garantizar el derecho fundamental a la educación de las personas en situación de movilidad a través de medidas urgentes, en sintonía con lo estipulado en el Objetivo de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) 4 de la Agenda 2030 de las Naciones Unidas. Por ello se ha emprendido la elaboración del presente Informe sobre el derecho a la educación de las personas en situación de movilidad en Belice, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Nicaragua, Panamá y República Dominicana. El Informe constituye un esfuerzo de la UNESCO y la Coordinación Educativa y Cultural Centroamericana (CECC/SICA) en colaboración con ACNUR, OIM, UNICEF, el Consejo Noruego para Refugiados y RET International, y con el apoyo técnico de la Fundación SES y la Cátedra UNESCO para el Desarrollo de la Educación Internacional en la Universidad George Washington (Estados Unidos)