[hr-education] Special Rapporteur on Right to Education to visit Germany from 13 to 21 February

UNITED NATIONS Press Release
9 February 2006

Vernor Muņoz, Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human
Rights on the right to education, will visit Germany at the invitation of
the Government from 13 to 21 February 2006.

During this visit, the Special Rapporteur will consider how Germany
endeavours to implement the right to education, the measures taken for its
successful realization and the obstacles encountered, both at the national
and international levels.

The Special Rapporteur will focus on issues related not only to access to
education but also to the quality of education, in particular for migrant
children, second generation children, economically and socially
disadvantaged children and children with disabilities. He will address
particular education challenges in Germany, such as the impact of the
federal system on a coherent and uniformed education policy, and will
review the ongoing German education reform in light of the result of the
Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) report.

The Special Rapporteur will meet with Government officials and with civil
society representatives, including non-governmental organizations,
education professionals, academics, students, and members of the media.
The Special Rapporteur will also have the opportunity to visit schools. He
will be travelling to Berlin, Postdam, Bonn and Munich.

The Special Rapporteur will present a report on his mission to the
Commission on Human Rights at its sixty-third session (2007).

The Special Rapporteur is an independent expert appointed by the United
Nations Commission on Human Rights to help States, and others, promote and
protect the right to education. For further information on the mandate of
the Special Rapporteur and copies of available reports, please consult the
website of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights 
(http://www.ohchr.org/english/issues/education/rapporteur/).