La implementación del derecho a la educación en América Latina a través de los informes del Comité de los Derechos del Niño

Abstract

The Education for All (EFA) goals cannot be understood without taking into account the implicit consequences that the benefit of the right to education implies. In the last three decades, the development of this essential right was associated with? the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). To shed light on this process, we focus on paradigm change that considers children as subjects of rights. In Latin America this process has been significant, as shown in the reports and observations that the Committee on the Rights of the Child has done about the implementation of the CRC. The objective of this article is to analyse how the Convention has been implemented in Latin American countries, particularly as regards the right to education. For this purpose, we have analysed the documents that produced by the Committee on the Rights of the Child, using the 4-A scheme proposed by Tomaševski where the commitment level adopted by each country is evident The main conclusion is that the States have committed much more to facilitate the access to school places than to the entire human rights approach of the right to education.