The_World_Conference_on_Education

The World Conference on Education One of the winning entries of the Poster Competition organized by the World Summit on the Information Society, in collaboration with the UN Cyberschoolbus: Lau Hei Tung, 10, China. The human right to education is well established, in principle if not in practice, and is described in Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and elaborated in Article 13 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Similar provisions are set out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, primarily in Articles 28 and 29. The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights' General Comment 13 provides an authoritative interpretation of its implications.1 Yet, we repeatedly see high aspirations defeated by the lack of resources devoted to education. It seems that funding is never adequate despite the clear evidence on the value of education. The World Conference on Education for All, held in Jomtien, Thailand in 1990, spelled out the aspirations in "The World Declaration on Education for All", known as the Jomtien Declaration, and also produced the Framework for Action to Meet Basic Learning Needs. The results are familiar: "These recommendations largely failed to generate the response needed to meet the growing demand-supply crisis education, should, children, schools, school, free, child, schooling, countries, social, provide, labour, parents, human, state, skills, right, private, educational, economic, students, rights, programmes, perhaps, health, directly, care, been, work, tuition, resources, poor, out, loans, help, governments