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UNPO (Unrepresented Nations & Peoples Organization)
July 25 2014
Stepanakert: "Access to Education is a Basic Human Right"
International Conference sheds light on Educational Discrimination for
youth from non-recognised states.
Brussels, 18 July 2014 - The Ministry of Education and Science of the
Nagorno Karabakh Republic and the Artsakh State University organized
an International Conference on 27-29 June 2014 entitled "Education
without Discrimination: Bologna Context". The event took place in
Stepanakert, the capital of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic and brought
together government officials and lawmakers from Armenia,
Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, Nagorno Karbakh, Basque country,
Flanders, in addition to international experts, researchers and
students from different corners of the world.
The main purpose of the conference was to address the question of the
equal right to education and the principle of non-discrimination.
Discussion was facilitated about this basic human right principle,
that is linked to the UN Convention against Discrimination in
Education, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and other
relevant international documents. During the conference, the right to
education was portrayed as a core aspect and facilitator of tolerance,
cooperation and peaceful conflict-solving mechanisms. The conference
focused moreover on the current national and international policies
for integration and participation to the Bologna process for
unrecognized states such as Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Kosovo and
Nagorno Karabakh.
The conference highlighted the importance of cooperation within the
context of a single European Higher Education Area, especially when it
comes to the integration of non-recognised states. Mr. Torosyan from
Yerevan state University took the floor and stressed on the importance
of institutional reforms, marking the peculiarities in post-conflict
countries.
The participants agreed that the right to education and the creation
of a single European Higher Education Area without discrimination
should be implemented in terms of development of stable, peaceful and
democratic societies. Within this framework, non-recognised states
should be ensured to have access to the Bologna process.
http://www.unpo.org/article/17364
July 25 2014
Stepanakert: "Access to Education is a Basic Human Right"
International Conference sheds light on Educational Discrimination for
youth from non-recognised states.
Brussels, 18 July 2014 - The Ministry of Education and Science of the
Nagorno Karabakh Republic and the Artsakh State University organized
an International Conference on 27-29 June 2014 entitled "Education
without Discrimination: Bologna Context". The event took place in
Stepanakert, the capital of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic and brought
together government officials and lawmakers from Armenia,
Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, Nagorno Karbakh, Basque country,
Flanders, in addition to international experts, researchers and
students from different corners of the world.
The main purpose of the conference was to address the question of the
equal right to education and the principle of non-discrimination.
Discussion was facilitated about this basic human right principle,
that is linked to the UN Convention against Discrimination in
Education, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and other
relevant international documents. During the conference, the right to
education was portrayed as a core aspect and facilitator of tolerance,
cooperation and peaceful conflict-solving mechanisms. The conference
focused moreover on the current national and international policies
for integration and participation to the Bologna process for
unrecognized states such as Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Kosovo and
Nagorno Karabakh.
The conference highlighted the importance of cooperation within the
context of a single European Higher Education Area, especially when it
comes to the integration of non-recognised states. Mr. Torosyan from
Yerevan state University took the floor and stressed on the importance
of institutional reforms, marking the peculiarities in post-conflict
countries.
The participants agreed that the right to education and the creation
of a single European Higher Education Area without discrimination
should be implemented in terms of development of stable, peaceful and
democratic societies. Within this framework, non-recognised states
should be ensured to have access to the Bologna process.
http://www.unpo.org/article/17364