Convention “Against Discrimination in Education” UNESCO, Paris, December 14, 1960 The Implementation of the Convention in the Georgian Legislation
Keywords:
Right to Education, Elimination of Discrimination, Inclusive Education, Financing of Education, UNESCO Convention.Abstract
The current article refers to the implementation of the UNESCO Convention “Against Discrimination in Education” (UNESCO, Paris) of December 14, 1960 in the Georgian legislation. It covers the general aspects of the implementation of the mentioned convention in the Georgian legislation. In the article we discuss what the discrimination in education is, what type of discrimination exists and what type of discrimination could take place in educational institutions. It is expedient to discuss the implementation of the convention in the Georgian legislation in the context of access to education, financing of education, inclusive education, the rights of ethnic minorities to education and religious and political discrimination. Hence, the following topics are presented: a) The access to education, where legal acts are discussed, in which the provisions of the convention are represented. In the same part, we discuss the Law of Georgia on the “Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination” of May 2, 2014 (Kutaisi, N 2391-IIS), which on its behalf, regulates the issues related to elimination of discrimination in education and access to education; b) The financing of education. Due to the fact that the state finances the general education in Georgia, whereas the citizens have the right to get funding from the state for vocational and higher education, in the given part we discuss all three types of state funding of education; c) The access to inclusive education. Taking into consideration the citizens’ right to education and elimination of all types of discrimination, utmost importance is placed on the inclusive education, thus, in our article we discuss the inclusive education, whereas we cover accessibility to inclusive education in state institutions; d) The ethnic minorities’ rights to education, whereas as according to the international standards, Georgia protects the individual and collective rights of ethnic minorities and facilitates their civic integration. This refers to access to education also; e) The religious and political discrimination, whereas we discuss the regulatory norms of the mentioned issue on the national level, which are in accordance with the 5th article of the convention.
The article also draws conclusions on the implementation of the discussed issues in Georgian legislation.
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