Statement of HRE 2020 at CEDAW Committee meeting on girls’/women’s right to education
For immediate release
7 July 2014
HREA, Amnesty International, Soka Gakkai International and 11 other organisations of the HRE 2020 coalition today made an oral statement at the CEDAW Committee general discussion on girls’/women’s right to education in Geneva (Switzerland). The purpose of the discussion was to help develop a “General Recommendation on girls/women’s right to education” as part of the Convention on the Elimination of All Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which the CEDAW Committee monitors.
“We need to move beyond equal access to education and equality in education, to education for equality”, said Cecilia Thompson (Equitas), who made the statement on behalf of HRE 2020. HRE 2020 calls for integrating reference to the right to human rights education of women and girls into the General Recommendation.
Full statement (PDF)
About HRE 2020
Human Rights Education 2020 (HRE 2020) was launched on 19 December 2013, the second anniversary of the adoption of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training. This landmark document recognises the right of every person to have access to human rights education.
The current coalition members of HRE 2020 are: Amnesty International, Arab Institute of Human Rights, Democracy and Human Rights Education in Europe (DARE Network), Equitas, Forum Asia, Human Rights Education Associates (HREA), Human Rights Educators USA (HRE USA), Hurights Osaka, Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC), Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA), People’s Watch, Peruvian Institute for Human Rights and Peace (IPEDEHP), Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, and Soka Gakkai International.
For further information about HRE 2020, please visit www.hre2020.org or contact Adele Poskitt, e-mail: info@hre2020.org or call: +1 617 301-4380.