A/HRC/26/27 presentation on the promotion of equality and opportunity in education for people of African descent. 6. On 21 and 22 May, the Special Rapporteur participated in the second global meeting of the International Group on the Right to Education, organized by the National Academy for Educational Research in Taipei, Taiwan Province of China, and gave the opening address on international initiatives on the right to education and education-related goals for the post-2015 development agenda. 7. In June, the Special Rapporteur took part in a number of activities organized during the twenty-third session of the Human Rights Council in support of his report on the justiciability of the right to education (A/HRC/23/35), which he presented to the Council on 31 May. He was the lead speaker at a side event organized by Ecuador, together with Brazil, India and Morocco on the theme of a human rights-based approach to the right to education. 8. During the international expert conference, “Vienna+20: Advancing the Protection of Human Rights” (27 and 28 June), organized in Vienna on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, the Special Rapporteur participated in a working group entitled “Mainstreaming human rights: a human rights based approach to the Post-2015 Development Agenda.” He was also a speaker at an expert meeting on “Promoting a rights-based approach to financial regulation and economic recovery”, held in Vienna on 1 July. 9. On 15 and 16 July, the Special Rapporteur attended an event entitled “Educational visions for India: reflections on strategy and action”, organized by the Council for Social Development in New Delhi. He also chaired and moderated a session on the right to education during the event. On 22 July, he met with the United Nations country team in India with respect to the right to education in the post-2015 development agenda. 10. On 15 August, the Special Rapporteur addressed a joint meeting of the Permanent Committee on Education, Culture, Tourism and Human Resources and the Permanent Committee on Justice and Human Rights of the Pan-African Parliament and shared his experience in promoting a human rights-based approach to education to bring African voices to the post-2015 development agenda. On the same day, he had an extensive dialogue with the South African Human Rights Commission, covering a wide range of issues relating to the protection and promotion of the right to education. 11. On 21 August, the Special Rapporteur was a main speaker at the International Forum on the Millennium Development Goals in the field of education and preparation of a corresponding development strategy after 2015, organized in Astana by the Ministry of Education and Science of Kazakhstan. On 23 August, he was among the high-level guest speakers at the launch of the International Decade for the Rapprochement of Cultures (2013–2022) in Astana. 12. On 18 and 19 September, the Special Rapporteur participated in a meeting of the Commonwealth Ministerial Working Group on the Post-2015 Development Framework for Education, as a follow-up to the Mauritius communiqué issued at the 18th Conference of Commonwealth Ministers of Education, and shared his views on the central role of education. 13. On 24 September, the Special Rapporteur was a lead speaker at an event on the theme of “Human right to education in the post-2015 development agenda”, hosted by the Global Campaign for Education, Open Society Foundations and 15 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), underlining the importance of the right to quality education for all. 14. On 4 October the Special Rapporteur attended the launch of the campaign “Unite for quality education - better education for a better world” on the occasion of World Teachers’ Day, celebrated by Educational International, along with many other NGOs, in New York. 4