The Right to Education and Human Rights Education as a Tool towards Social Inclusion

The paper analyses the content of the international law rules which define the human right to education. The right to education cannot be understood as limited to the possibility for students to have access to school but rather to have access to quality education. In this sense the paper argues that an essential feature of quality education is human rights education. The second part of the paper deals with the instruments adopted at European level with the aim of fostering human rights education, such as the 2015 Paris Declaration, and it examines whether the implementation of such instruments is moving towards the direction of increasing the level of human rights education at school.