
Chile: CRC, Concluding observations, CRC/C/CHL/CO/4-5, paras. 67 – 68 and 69 – 70, 15 October 2015
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Haiti: CRC, Concluding observations: Haiti, CRC/C/HTI/CO/2-3, paras. 58 - 59, 29 January 2016
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Human rights bodies, namely The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), the UN Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) have addressed the issue of the role of private actors in education 49 times in 33 States in the last eight years.
These statements clearly reflect the trend of the growth of unregulated private providers of education that the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and other organisations have been researching. It also demonstrates the growing concerns raised by human rights experts regarding the impact this trend has on the right to education as protected under the four treaties monitored by these committees.
The committees have made several recommendations focusing on the following topics: