The present report, submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolutions 8/4 and 26/17, is devoted to lifelong learning and the right to education. The Special Rapporteur sheds light on the vision and concept of lifelong learning and highlights the emergence of the 'right to learning', intertwined with the right to education and training as a social right. He also examines state responsibility, along with that of other social partners, for its realisation and underlines the key importance placed on lifelong learning in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Special Rapporteur also looks at the special role that devolves upon technical and vocational education and training for skills development and analyses the issues in financing lifelong learning. Finally, the Special Rapporteur offers a set of recommendations with a view to promoting learning as a right and its pursuit from a lifelong learning perspective, in keeping with state obligations as set out in international human rights instruments.

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Le rapport traite des questions et problèmes qui se posent en matière de droit à l’éducation à l’ère numérique, l’accent étant mis sur l’enseignement supérieur, et examine la question de savoir comment respecter les normes et principes qui sous-tendent le droit à l’éducation doivent être respectés dans le contexte de l’adoption des technologies numériques. Le rapport s’achève sur des recommandations tendant à garantir que l’utilisation des technologies numériques applicables à l’enseignement soit conforme aux obligations des États en matière de droit à l’éducation.

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El informe examina problemas y desafíos relacionados con el derecho a la educación en la era digital, haciendo especial hincapié en la educación superior. Examina cómo deben respetarse las normas y principios que sustentan el derecho a la educación aprovechando al mismo tiempo las tecnologías digitales. El informe concluye con recomendaciones para garantizar que la utilización de la tecnología digital en la educación esté en consonancia con las obligaciones de los Estados con respecto al derecho a la educación.
 
 
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Dans ce rapport, le Rapporteur spécial apporte un éclairage sur la vision et le concept de l’apprentissage tout au long de la vie et souligne l’émergence d’un « droit à l’apprentissage », étroitement lié au droit à l’éducation et à la formation comme droit social. Il examine en outre la responsabilité des États, ainsi que des autres partenaires sociaux, pour sa réalisation et souligne l’importance clef accordée à l’apprentissage tout au long de la vie dans le Programme de développement durable à l’horizon 2030. Le Rapporteur spécial se penche également sur le rôle particulier qui est donné à l’enseignement et à la formation techniques et professionnels pour le développement des compétences et analyse les questions liées au financement de l’apprentissage tout au long de la vie.

Enfin, il formule un ensemble de recommandations visant à promouvoir l’apprentissage comme droit et dans une perspective d’apprentissage tout au long de la vie, pour satisfaire aux obligations des États énoncées dans les instruments internationaux relatifs aux droits de l’homme.

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En este informe, el Relator Especial arroja luz sobre la visión y el concepto del aprendizaje permanente, y destaca el nacimiento del “derecho al aprendizaje” como derecho social estrechamente relacionado con el derecho a la educación y la formación. Asimismo, examina la responsabilidad del Estado y de otros interlocutores sociales con respecto al goce efectivo de este derecho, y subraya la importancia primordial que se otorga al aprendizaje permanente en la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible. El Relator Especial examina también el papel especial que desempeña la educación y formación técnica y profesional en el desarrollo de aptitudes, y analiza las cuestiones relacionadas con la financiación del aprendizaje permanente.

Por último, el Relator Especial ofrece una serie de recomendaciones con miras a promover el aprendizaje como derecho y su búsqueda desde la perspectiva del aprendizaje permanente, en consonancia con las obligaciones del Estado en virtud de los instrumentos internacionales de derechos humanos.

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In this report, the Special Rapporteur sheds light on the vision and concept of lifelong learning and highlights the emergence of the “right to learning”, intertwined with the right to education and training as a social right. He also examines State responsibility, along with that of other social partners, for its realization and underlines the key importance placed on lifelong learning in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Special Rapporteur also looks at the special role that devolves upon technical and vocational education and training for skills development and analyses the issues in financing lifelong learning.

Finally, the Special Rapporteur offers a set of recommendations with a view to promoting learning as a right and its pursuit from a lifelong learning perspective, in keeping with State obligations as set out in international human rights instruments.

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The Latin American Campaign for the Right to Education (CLADE, by its Spanish acronym) is a pluralistic network of civil society organizations with a presence in 18 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, which promotes social mobilization and political advocacy to defend the human right to education. This collection of articles, essays and statements reflect on the vital role of public education in the region and the fault lines exposed by the pandemic, considering both the challenges public education in Latin America faces and possible solutions, alternatives and ways forward.

 

 

The COVID-19 pandemic and the responses of States thereto have had a very significant impact on the enjoyment of a wide range of social rights. The Council of Europe’s European Social Charter provides a framework for the measures that must be taken by States Parties to cope with the pandemic as it unfolds. The treaty also provides a necessary framework for the post-pandemic social and economic recovery as well as for preparation for and responses to possible future crises of this nature.

With the present statement the European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR) aims to highlight those Charter rights that are particularly engaged by the COVID-19 crisis. (It does not address the right to protection of health under Article 11 of the Charter, which was the subject of a separate statement adopted in April 20201 ). The statement provides guidance to States Parties, organisations of workers and employers, civil society and other key stakeholders by clarifying certain aspects of the Charter rights in question as they apply in the current crisis. 

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