out to examine the pattern of problems in situ, while obstacles or alleged violations are tackled through correspondence with the respective governments. My three annual and two mission reports (Uganda and England) are available on the homepage of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (www.unhchr.ch) in English, French and Spanish, as are resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights and other pertinent documents. My UN reports are also available at www.right-to-education.org. UN reports are limited to 28 pages and so a great deal of economizing is needed to cover all pertinent issues; the coverage is necessarily superficial. There is only one annual report while funding available for missions effectively permits only one every second year. The style in which these reports are written does not facilitate easy reading. Therefore, this series of publications addresses each important dimension of the right to education in turn. The publications are kept short, the multitude of legal information is provided separately so as to facilitate easy reading, and real-life examples are used as much as possible to exemplify the relevance of the human rights approach to education. They are circulated in a limited number of copies to stimulate discussion and invite critical comment. All comments and suggestions are thus welcome. K. Tomaševski Lund, 18 January 2001 Right to Education Primers No. 3 7