About the right to education and human rights

About the right to education and human rights

A conferência discutirá questões relacionadas com a concretização do direito à educação, tais como a dimensão cultural do direito à educação, as liberdades na educação, os direitos dos professores, a aprendizagem ao longo da vida e as tendências atuais de comercialização e digitalização da educação. Farida Shaheed apresentará alguns dos estudos e iniciativas levadas a cabo no seio das Nações Unidas para perspetivar o direito à educação, hoje e no futuro.

Farida Shaheed• Special Rapporteur on the right to education, United Nations

From Pakistan, took office as new Special Rapporteur on the right to education on 1st August 2022. She is a sociologist and the Executive Director of Pakistan’s leading gender justice organization, Shirkat Gah – Women’s Resource Centre. Widely published, and the recipient of several international and national human rights awards, her research and work as development consultant/practitioner have been dedicated to promoting and protecting people’s rights, in particular marginalized groups such as women, persons of non-binary identities, those living with disabilities, religious and ethnic minorities, and the economically marginalized.