The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the United Nations system-wide action plan ensure a coherent approach to achieve the ends of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Furthermore, the United Nations declared 2019 The Year of Indigenous Languages (YIL2019) to raise awareness, not only to benefit the people who speak these languages, but also for others to appreciate the important contribution they make to our world’s rich cultural diversity. Initiatives throughout 2019, highlighted the urgent need to preserve, revitalize and promote indigenous languages around the world, and to tackle the issue of the alarming loss of languages and worldviews. To monitor the implementation of the right to education, UNESCO regularly launches periodic consultations of Member States, by which they are requested to submit reports highlighting the situation in their countries as well as progress and issues. The Ninth Consultation of Member States on the implementation of the Convention and Recommendation against Discrimination in Education and its results were submitted to UNESCO at the end of 2017.
This document compiles practical examples related to indigenous people’s right to education, extracted from reports submitted by Member States within the framework of the Ninth Consultation on the implementation of the 1960 Convention and Recommendation against Discrimination in Education. It is intended to serve as a practical tool for both information sharing and advocacy. Section one presents the international legal framework protecting the right to education for indigenous peoples. Section two provides a thematic analysis of measures and promising practices that have been reported on by Member States to ensure the full enjoyment of the right to education for indigenous people. Section three compiles references to the right to education of indigenous people in national reports submitted for the Ninth Consultation of Member States. The factsheets contained herein highlight progress and challenges in constitutional, legislative and policy frameworks and measures addressing the right to education of indigenous peoples.
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