PERSPECTIVE article
Front. Educ.
Sec. Leadership in Education
This article is part of the Research TopicThe right to education and addressing inequalities: Examining new forms of privatisation, impact of digitalisation and learning in crisis situationsView all 9 articles
Protecting and strengthening the essential contribution of UN human rights treaty bodies and civil society organizations to the implementation and evolution of the right to education: a necessity at a pivotal time
Provisionally accepted
- Right to Education Initiative, London, United Kingdom
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In light of the evolving dimensions of the right to education, this opinion piece shows how UN human rights treaties play a key role in monitoring and interpreting the right to education, which contributes to advance its implementation and evolution. It highlights how civil society organizations, when engaging with them, particularly through reporting mechanisms, influence their work and therefore also contribute to advance the realization of the right to education both at international and national levels. This opinion piece argues that the growing concerns and challenges in the functioning of these mechanisms, and more broadly in monitoring and reporting on the right to education, put under threat their useful contribution at a pivotal time for the right to education. It calls for the protection and strengthening of their work, essentially through adequate financing.
Keywords: Civil society - NGOs, Evolving right, human rights mechanisms, Human rights monitoring, Interpretation of human rights treaties, Right to education, UN human rights treaty bodies
Received: 17 Dec 2025; Accepted: 23 Jan 2026.
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* Correspondence: Delphine Dorsi
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