Has the Right to Education a Future Within the United Nations? A Behind-the-Scenes Account by the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education 1998-2004

This article ponders over the future of human rights work withinthe United Nations on the basis of the author's six years ofexperience as the Special Rapporteur on the right to educationof the Commission on Human Rights. This broadens the analysisto the factors shaping the work of the Commission on Human Rightsthat are not formally documented, and generates a series ofquestions concerning the Commission's recent past and uncertainfuture.