Education, from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) until the Objectives of the Millennium (2000)

Abstract

It was seventy years on December 10, 2008 since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was promulgated. The Declaration of 1948 includes in 7 legal reasons and 30 articles the whole of the aspirations of those gathered there representing the nations grouped together in the recently founded UNO. The articles 18 and 26 of (UDHR) establish the citizens’ right to education, the former as the citizen’ freedom before the State the latter as the State’s duty to the citizen. Seventy years after UDHR though it is true that a great progress has been made in the universal development of the right to education yet there is still much to be done so that this recognized right may be an effective right. It is nine years already since in the Declaration of the Millennium it was included as second objective to achieve a universal primary education and as athird goal to assure that in 2015 every where boys as well as girls may finish acomplete cycle of primary education. A reading of the actual signs makes it clearthat it will hardly be possible to reach this goal.