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Futures of Education: Share your views on non-discrimination and equality of opportunities

On the occasion of the , UNESCO is launching a global conversation on how the right to education around this Convention can evolve.

We are looking for on how the right to education can embrace new areas to respond to emerging challenges, and their implications for ensuring quality education for all.

These areas may include for instance issues in relation to remote learning, digital inclusion and learner’s data and privacy aspects, connectivity, right to lifelong learning, early childhood care and education, and other right-based areas, with the aim to prevent an exacerbation of inequalities worldwide.

In its June 2020 report the International Commission on the Futures of Education called for an expanded understanding of the right to education. The Commission called for a global public discussion – that includes among others learners of all ages – on ways the right to education might need to be broadened to reflect changing contexts, learning throughout life, and the importance of access to knowledge and information.

The 60th anniversary of the UNESCO Convention against Discrimination in Education is organized around 5 main building blocks: advocacy, implementation, monitoring, ratification, and evolution.  This call for a global conversation is part of the fifth pillar – evolution – and is launched in the framework of UNESCO’s .

  • on main issues at stake, emerging trends and elements to be considered related to the right to education challenges.