This report represents a joint submission to CEDAW by 13 civil society organisations and coalitions regarding the negative impact of privatisation on the right to education of women and girls, and was informed by extensive online consultations and a face-to-face meeting involving 12 national education coalitions, alongside regional and international organisations.

The Global Campaign for Education (GCE) is a civil society movement that aims to end exclusion in education. Education is a basic human right, and our mission is to make sure that governments act now to deliver the right of everyone to a free, quality, public education.