Marrakech, 16 and 17 July 2009

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III – Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education

12. This mandate, put in place in 1998 by the Commission on Human Rights, has been regularly renewed. It has also been assumed by the Human Rights Council since that body's creation. The Special Rapporteur's various reports have by and large focused on making the right to education a reality. Change is nevertheless on the horizon, thanks to the nomination of Mr Vernor Munoz Villalobos, who seems willing to make HRE a more important part of his work. His first annual report and his reports on visits to Morocco and Bosnia-Herzegovina are cases in point.
13. For this work to be useful, however, the conclusions drawn from it must be absorbed into the framework of various procedures. To take an example at random, the compilation on Morocco prepared for a UPC by the High Commission on Human Rights contains no reference to the Special Rapporteur's remarks on the right to education on HRE — remarks included in the Rapporteur's report on the country visit.

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