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Tag Archives: right to education
Are private actors the solution to achieve SDG 4?
By Dr. Maria Ron Balsera, ActionAid SDG 4 aims to ‘ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all’, with the leading principle of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to ‘leave no one behind’. Yet, … Continue reading
Global Action week for Education: Civil society urges citizens to claim their right to education
By Global Campaign for Education The Global Action Week for Education (GAWE) is a flagship event for the civil society education movement. Since 2003, this annual week of action led by the Global Campaign for Education has successfully chosen topical … Continue reading
Posted in legal rights, right to education, Uncategorized
Tagged free education, right to education, SDG 4
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Undocumented children cannot go to school in South Africa: ‘The system is letting them down’
This content comes from our newly released interactive youth version of the 2019 GEM Report. Kutenda is a 13-year-old Zimbabwean boy in South Africa who is lucky to be in school at all. He has no documentation because the country’s … Continue reading
Education is not a privilege, it’s a legal right
By Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director General for Education, UNESCO Education is like a seed. And for this empowering right to flourish and grow, it must have the best conditions. Education must not only be accessible to all, it must be … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, monitoring, right to education, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged monitoring, right to education
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Free education for all in Sierra Leone? Can it happen?
In late August, Sierra Leone’s newly elected President Julius Madaa Bio, announced a five year initiative to roll out free pre-primary, primary and secondary education on 17 September. The new policy is intended to guarantee free school places for one … Continue reading
Posted in Developing countries, Finance, Inclussion, Uncategorized
Tagged financing, free education, right to education, Sierra Leone
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Charting the Pacific: the importance of national monitoring reports for mapping education trends and challenges in the region
In this blog, the Pacific Community’s Education Quality and Assessment Program explain the way they support governments from across the region in producing national education monitoring reports, and how improved data collection and analysis at the national level is essential … Continue reading
Radwan: “My school said ‘We don’t want wheelchairs any more’”
Almost every country around the world has ratified the right to education, but yet many schools either refuse to enrol children with disabilities or are ill-equipped to cope with their needs. A recent report by Human Rights Watch which looked … Continue reading
Posted in Inclusion, right to education, Uncategorized
Tagged #Target 4.5, 2020 GEM Report, disabilities, disability, Inclusion, right to education
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‘I feel left behind’ says Fred, a blind student from Malawi
Fred is a thirteen year old boy attending a primary school in Malawi, which is supported by Save the Children. His story is one of many who are living with a disability and are coping with the challenges that this … Continue reading
Posted in Inclusion, right to education, Uncategorized
Tagged #Target 4.5, 2020 GEM Report, Inclusion, right to education
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A unique opportunity to design and deliver education for refugees
By Joseph Nhan-O’Reilly on behalf of a coalition of organisations working to support education for refugees including the Initiative on Child Rights in the Global Compacts, a coalition of 30 UN, civil society and philanthropic organisations that are working to … Continue reading
The Chilean students are back for more: protesting for education equality
For the third time in the past 12 years, Chilean students are back on the streets calling for equality in education. This time they are protesting a decision taken by the Constitutional Tribunal to overturn the Higher Education Law, which … Continue reading
