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Realising the Abidjan Principles on the Right to Education | CIES 2021 Annual Conference launches the book co-edited by Sylvain Aubry, GI-ESCR expert on education

Nellie Epinat

This Thursday 29 April, GI-ESCR is participating in the book launch of Realising the Abidjan Principles on the Right to Education: Human Rights, Public Education, and the role of private actors in education, at the 65th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), a major conference on the topic of education. The book is co-edited by Sylvain Aubry, Senior Legal and Research Advisor at GI-ESCR.

The 65th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) is happening this year in Seattle, US, on the topic of Social Responsibility Within Changing Contexts.

When?

April 29th: 10 - 10.30 Los Angeles /  18 - 19.30 LONDON / 20 - 21:30 Nairobi / 1 - 2.30 Manila

where?

The event is open to people who have already registered to the CIES Annual Conference

See here on the CIES website

The book Realising the Abidjan Principles on the Right to Education: Human Rights, Public Education, and the role of private actors in education will be available in June 2021.

It is co-edited by Frank M. Adamson, California State University, Sacramento; Sylvain Aubry, GI-ESCR; Mireille de Mireille De Koning, Open Society Foundations; Delphine Dorsi, Right to Education Initiative.

The panel

Realising the Abidjan Principles on the Right to Education: Human Rights, Public Education, and the role of private actors in education

This panel examines - across four presentations - eight different topics related to key issues raised in the process of developing and producing the Abidjan Principles on the human rights obligations of States to provide public education and to regulate private involvement in education.

The Abidjan Principles have become a global reference point, recognised by a range of international and regional organisations since their adoption. In the context of new and increasingly complex governance arrangements and processes in education and with the growing involvement of various private actors and interests in the provision, management, and funding of education in particular, the Abidjan Principles offer a much-needed tool to address the organization of education systems.

Presentations will be given by Mireille De Koning, Open Society Foundations; Delphine Dorsi, Right to Education Initiative; and Frank M. Adamson, California State University, Sacramento. The event will be chaired by Gita Steiner-Khamsi of Teachers College, Columbia University & NORRAG, with Manos Antoninis of UNESCO acting as discussant.