[hr-education] UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Education to visit Malaysia from 5-14 February 2007

UNITED NATIONS 
Press Release 

xxxxxxxxxx SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON RIGHT TO EDUCATION TO VISIT MALAYSIA
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5 February 2007 

Vernor Muņoz, Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights
Council on the right to education, will visit Malaysia at the invitation
of the Government from 5 to 14 February 2007.

During this visit, the Special Rapporteur will consider how Malaysia
endeavours to implement the right to education, the measures taken for its
successful realization and the obstacles encountered. The Special
Rapporteur will focus on issues related not only to access to education
but also to the quality of education, in particular for girls, children
with disabilities, children in conflict with the law and children from
economically and socially disadvantaged groups, such as migrants and
indigenous peoples. He will address particular issues for the promotion of
the right to education in Malaysia, such as, inter alia, the
implementation of different ethnic groups' right to education, the impact
of socio-economic disparity, the protection of children's rights within
the school system and the situation of higher education.

The Special Rapporteur will meet with Government officials and with civil
society representatives, including non-governmental organizations,
education professionals, academics, students, parents and members of the
media. The Special Rapporteur will also have the opportunity to visit
schools. He will be travelling to the cities of Kuala Lumpur, Kota Baru,
Kuching and their suburbs.

The Special Rapporteur will present a report on his mission to Malaysia to
the Council on Human Rights in 2008.

The Special Rapporteur is an independent expert appointed by the former
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/index.htm).






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