[hr-education] Vernor Muņoz Villalobos appointed as UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education

UNITED NATIONS
Press Release

xxxxxxxxxx VERNOR MUŅOZ VILLALOBOS APPOINTED UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON
RIGHT TO EDUCATION xxxxxxxxxx

30 August 2004

United Nations Commission on Human Rights Chairman Mike Smith has
appointed Vernor Muņoz Villalobos of Costa Rica as Special Rapporteur on
the right to education. The appointment was made on 13 July 2004 in
consultation with representatives of the different regional groups in the
Commission.

Mr. Muņoz Villalobos, who is currently serving in the Costa Rican
Ombudsman's Office, teaches at the Latina University of Costa Rica as
Professor of Civil Rights. Mr. Muņoz Villalobos is also an advisor on
human rights education. Mr. Muņoz Villalobos has vast experience in
mainstreaming human rights in strategic planning, especially in the field
of education.  He has designed and coordinated many projects advocating
and reinforcing participatory processes for the benefit of school pupils
and university students.

Special Rapporteurs and other "mandate-holders" of the Commission are
independent from any government and serve in their individual capacity.
The Special Rapporteur on the right to education is mandated by the
Commission to make recommendations on appropriate measures to promote and
protect the realization of the right to education based on gathered and
received information from relevant sources, and to intensify efforts aimed
at identifying ways and means to overcome obstacles and difficulties in
the realization of the right to education. The Special Rapporteur is also
mandated to review the interdependence and interrelatedness of the right
to education with other human rights, to apply a gender perspective in his
work, and to present his proposals and recommendations to the Commission
on an annual basis.

The current mandate of the Special Rapporteur expires in 2007. The
previous Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Katarina
Tomasevski, who served from the creation of the mandate in 1998 until July
2004, made an important contribution to a better understanding of the
normative content of this and related rights.




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