A/HRC/14/25
cause” of migration, helping Governments to realize the right to development
becomes imperative.74
83.
The Special Rapporteur perceives a crucial need for States, donors,
international agencies and civil society to work collaboratively together, as substantial
movement and migration across national borders will continue to define our
globalized world. Their joint aim should be to build and sustain cohesive and resilient
communities able to adapt in response to change.75 To this end, the Special
Rapporteur recommends that exchange of good practice is increased and, at a
minimum, all should look to:
• Foster the view in all learning settings, both formal and non-formal, that
cultural and linguistic diversity is a resource from which individuals and
groups can build strong and supportive sustainable communities.
• Develop educational strategies which strengthen the capabilities of
marginalized communities as a whole, while addressing the specific educational
needs of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers. Such strategies should look to
embedded and coordinated mainstream lifelong learning which prioritizes
early integration and the recognition of prior learning.
• Pay increased attention to quality linguistic and culturally appropriate early
childhood, primary, post-primary and tertiary education that is responsive to
the developmental needs of a region and the value of regional understanding
and tolerance.
• Integrate the human rights framework (protection issues including teachers’
code of conduct)76 into curricula and the learning environment.
• Establish individual curricula or tutoring programmes that support majority
language acquisition and, if necessary, other subject areas, so that majority
language learning and subject matters can be learned at the same time. These
should be offered in mainstream schools and without creating segregated
adaptation groups and classes.
• Make available and promote information/materials on education (and welfare)
systems with respect to rights, opportunities and responsibilities in migrant
languages and in accordance with migrant, refugee and asylum-seeker
population needs.
• Improve (national) monitoring systems regarding access to and learning
outcomes of migrants and refugees, including data on gender parity and
disability. This should include information on the language used in the home
and/or the language of instruction of previously completed education
institutions in order to monitor language development and language-related
drop out.
• Prompt development of regional and international qualification systems,
incorporating mutual, reciprocal and automatic recognition of informal and
formal learning achievements. This should be accompanied by increased
research on potential and viable solutions to issues of equivalency in the
learning environment and the workplace.
74
75
76
20
B.S. Chimni, “Development and migration”, in Migration and international legal norms, pp. 255–
268.
See “Migration, Communities and Lifelong Learning”, p. 7.
See INEE Minimum Standards, Section “Teachers and other Education Personnel”, pp. 65–72.
GE.10-12879
Select target paragraph3
Connect to a paragraph
Connect to an entity
Disable highlights
Add to table of contents