UN Special Rapporteur cautions against Prevent in schools in report on children’s right to a safe education
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has released the advanced edited version of their report into children’s right to be safe in education, including a paragraph relating to Prevent in schools that drew from a submission sent by Prevent Watch to the Special Rapporteur on safety in education Farida Shaheed earlier this year. You can find Prevent Watch’s submission here under CSOs. Click on our name and download our submission. The report has been submitted to the Human Rights Council pursuant to the Council resolutions 8/4 and 53/7, during the 59th session of the UNHRC held between 16 June and 11 July 2025 under Agenda Item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development. In it, the Special Rapporteur addresses the “right to be safe in education”, as part of children’s right to education. Prevent Watch made a […]