United Nations Links

- UN Conferences on Education for All

The first conference was in 1990. The last one was a follow-up to the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal, April 2000.

• "World Declaration on Education For All" and "Framework for Action to Meet Basic Learning Needs" (Choose: "World Declaration on Education For All" by Jomtien, 1990, in pdf format)
• Also UNESCO Choose: "Follow-up to the World Education Forum" and Choose: "The Dakar Framework for Action"
  There is much interesting material on that site. There is a section entitled, "Indicative Phasing of Implementation for the 1990's." This gives UNESCO (UN) authority to monitor the implementation of the new education system in each country at "regional and international levels."
  

  "Each country, in determining its own intermediate goals and targets and in designing its plan of action for achieving them, will [our emphasis], in the process, establish a timetable to harmonize and schedule specific activities." (Framework for Action, in Section III.4, Consultations on Policy Issues, Adopted in Jomtein, Thailand in 1990)

  NOTE: In the United States that requirment is fulfilled in the Goals 2000 Act of 1994, and in Minnesota's Profile of Learning. Among these activities is the establishment of "partnerships" (of which we have become all too familiar). Local appointed (as opposed to elected) partnership boards are now established into state statute. Each step along the way, the UN plan has been followed by the federal statute.

• "Outline of UNESCO's draft Action Plan for the follow-up to the World Education Forum"
• Dakar Follow-up UNESCO's draft Action Plan, The Dakar Framework for Action
• Education For All:  Meeting Our Collective Commitments, Text adopted by the World Education Forum, Dakar, Senegal, 26-28 April 2000
• UNESCO & Human Rights: "Everyone has the right to education" (Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

"Univeral Declaration of Human Rights" Article 29, (3)    "These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations."

That means that under the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights", we have no rights except those recognized by the United Nations. Rights are not inherent, self evident, unalienable, or God-given, according to the Universal Declaration. Instead, the United Nations gives rights and the United Nations can take them away. This is the opposite of freedom and individual rights.