United Nations General Assembly A/HRC/35/24/Add.1 Distr.: General 3 April 2017 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirty-fifth session 6-23 June 2017 Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education on his mission to Chile Note by the Secretariat The Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Kishore Singh, undertook a mission to Chile from 28 March to 4 April 2016, the findings of which are contained in the present report. Unprecedented education reforms are under way in Chile, aimed at dismantling the legacy of market-based approaches in education that have led to a highly segregated and discriminatory education system. The Special Rapporteur welcomes the new model of education, which recognizes education as a right, not a commodity. His report presents an analysis of the emerging national legal system that is being developed in accordance with international standards, which constitute the basis of the reforms. The process has been facilitated by subjecting freedom of teaching to the country’s international and constitutional obligations concerning the right to education, so that freedom of teaching is not unfettered. The report provides an overview of developments in education and equity-based measures, highlighting the challenges involved in giving concrete shape to the reforms. The Special Rapporteur underlines the need for stringent investigation into the financial operations of all private providers with transparency and full accountability and concludes with a series of recommendations that should help to strengthen the reforms. GE.17-05255(E) 