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

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.