The Right to Education and Citizen Participation: a pending democratic challenge

Autor: FLAPE

A declaration of the Latin-American Forum on Educational Policies (FLAPE) presented at the II Intergovernmental Meeting of the Regional Education Project for Latin America and the Caribbean – PRELAC (March, 2007, Buenos Aires). The document is based on the 14 studies made on the Right to Education and the Participation and Incidence of Civil Society in Educational Policies, developed in each of the seven countries that compose FLAPE (Argentina, Brazil, Columbia, Chile, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru) throughout the year 2006.

New Human Rights Norms - learning from experience

Autor: PIDHDD

The dynamism of the international law of human rights is a result of continuous social changes. The book describes how the various norms on human rights were established in the past, and the various options available for those who defend new standards in the future.

To Defend our right - Manual of exigibility in DESC

Autor: PIDHDD

This collection of essays, compiled to suggest ways of defining strategies of exigibility, can be a daily working tool of the social organizations and Human Rights defendants in Latin America. The manual offers concepts, strategies and methodologies of legal and political exigibility over Educational, Social and Cultural Rights. It is directed at the various leaderships of civil society and the organizations represented by them.

Human rights are essential tools for an effective intercultural dialogue

Statement by a group of United Nations experts on the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, May, 21st, 2010

Tool kit on Education Financing 2009

Autor: ActionAind and Education International

This toolkit aims to help you build a strong campaign on education financing adapted to your own unique national context. In the process of building such a campaign together we hope that trust can be built between agencies that have very different histories and working cultures but very strong common goals.

OUTCOME STATEMENT: CONFERENCE ON THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION OF MINORITIES IN THE AMERICAS

The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights (RFK Center) in partnership with Association NOMADESC, the Cornell Law School International Human Rights Clinic (Cornell Clinic), the University of Valle in Cali, Colombia, the University of Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, and the University of Virginia School of Law International Human Rights Clinic (UVA Clinic) convened the conference entitled ―Conference on the Right to Education of Minorities in the Americas.‖ Day one of the Conference was held at the University of Valle in Cali on Wednesday, September 16, 2009, and day two was held at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá on Monday, September 21, 2009. This document is an evaluative report of the enconter, which had CLADE's presence and participation.