A/HRC/23/35 Dialogue Forum: Teacher challenges for the EFA” in New Delhi, India, organized by the Government of India in cooperation with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). In June, he participated as keynote speaker at a side event, organized by the International Organization for the Right to Education and Freedom of Education (OIDEL), aimed at promoting quality education. In July, the Special Rapporteur met with a high-level delegation of the Ministry of Education of Thailand at UNESCO, Paris, for a dialogue on teachers’ education, quality imperatives and normative action in the field of education. This was followed by a discussion on the education agenda beyond 2015 in Thailand (considering Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) plus commitments) and the country’s 15-year free education for all programme. 8. In September, he gave a keynote address at a seminar organized by the European Network of Ideas, in cooperation with the European Peoples Party of the European Parliament in Brussels to address the importance of quality education. He also was one the main speakers at the launch of the publication “Protecting Education in Insecurity and Conflict: An International Law Handbook ” by Education Above All in New York. He gave a lecture at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, New York on the “Right to a Quality Education – Norms and Standards”, and later attended the High-level Launch of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Initiative on Global Education – Education First, and made a statement. 9. In November, he spoke at the round table “Human Rights and Development Cooperation” on the Human Rights Approach in International Cooperation and Public Policies, organized jointly by the National University of Piura, Peru, and the University of Rioja, Spain. He also participated in the Fifth Budapest Human Rights Forum, and served as a panellist on human rights education and training. He was a special invitee in the World Innovation Summit for Education in Doha, Qatar, where H.H. Sheikha Moza bint Nasser’s “Educate a Child Initiative” was launched. In the same month, he made a statement at UNESCO’s First Global Education for All meeting in Paris, which brought governments together to provide quality basic education to all children, youths and adults by 2015. In December, the Special Rapporteur participated in the 55 th session of the Conference of Ministers of Education of the Francophone countries – CONFEMEN – held in Ndjamena (Chad), and gave a speech on the diversification of offers in education and the right to education. He also participated in the high-level advocacy event “Stand up for Malala – Girls’ Education is a Right”, organized in Paris by UNESCO in cooperation with Pakistan to mark Human Rights Day. During the same month, he participated in the Steering Committee Seminar of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) in Sevres (France), and had a dialogue with the Bureau of ADEA on key issues and international initiatives in the field of the right to education. 10. In January, 2013 the Special Rapporteur participated as keynote speaker at a seminar on “Justiciability as an Instrument for Enforcing the Right to Education ”, organized by the Right to Education Forum in New Delhi. He participated as a panellist in the first Seminar on Human Rights Education and Morality, organized as part of a series of Seminars on Implementation of the U nited Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training (2011) by the Research Centre on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, University of Paris II, with the s upport of the French National Commission for UNESCO. He also participated in the Working Group on “Education and Development” organized by the Education and Development wing of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in cooperation the Agence Française de développement (French Agency of Development) for reflections on the post -2015 MDG agenda. 4