Vernor Muñoz

Vernor Muñoz Villalobos (born December 21, 1961 in San José , Costa Rica ) is a lawyer , educator and philosopher . He was the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education from August 2004 to July 2010 and reports to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

activities

The predecessor and first UN special rapporteur on the right to education was Katarina Tomasevski from 1998 to 2004 , his successor is Kishore Singh . Muñoz's six-year mandate as UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education ended in 2010. Since the work as UN Special Rapporteur is voluntary, Muñoz continues to work as Professor of Law at the University of Costa Rica in San José. He also works as the ombudsman for the rights of San José residents. Muñoz is married and has three children.

In February 2006, during a ten-day trip, he inspected the German education system and presented his report on March 21, 2007 , which names various forms of discrimination in the German education system. The early separation of pupils in the German three-tier school system and the discrimination against pupils with disabilities and with a migration background were criticized . In his preliminary report published in Berlin on February 21, 2006, Muñoz expressed concern about the fact that the restrictive German compulsory schooling is criminalizing the use of the right to education through alternative forms of learning such as home schooling. He also criticized the strong differences in the education systems between the federal states. The report was discussed controversially by education politicians after announcements in 2006, but especially after it was published on March 21, 2007. German education politicians like Jürgen Zöllner and Siegfried Schneider criticized a. a., during a ten-day visit one could not evaluate the federal education system of a country in such absolute terms and, moreover, the performance of vocational training was disregarded. The report was noted and signed by the German UN ambassador.

See also

• Report on the visit to Germany by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education

Fonts

• Sea in the mist. Education on the way to human rights. Verlag Barbara Budrich, Opladen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86649-374-2

literature

• Bernd Overwien , Annedore Pregel (ed.): Right to education. On the visit of the United Nations Special Rapporteur to Germany. Barbara Budrich Verlag, Opladen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86649-076-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Vernor Muñoz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education at the United Nations (English)
• Vernor Muñoz: Federal Press Conference on February 21, 2006 in Berlin (transcription and translation into German) (PDF file; 60 kB)
• Information on the official visit to Germany by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education (GEW homepage)
• Information on the unofficial visit to Germany by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education on June 7, 2009 in Oldenburg (Oldb)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ un.org : UN chooses Costa Rican human rights expert as rapporteur on right to education . August 31, 2004 (last accessed December 11, 2008)
2. ↑ un.org : New Special Rapporteur on the right to education . 2010. (Last accessed on February 1, 2011)