Tag Archives: right to education

Son preference and girls’ education in India and Bangladesh

Posted on 8 March 2021 by GEM Report

By M Niaz Asadullah, Professor of Development Economics at the University of Malaya, Malaysia, Nazia Mansoor, lecturer, University of Paris, Dauphine (London), Teresa Randazzo, lecturer University of Venice Cà Foscari and Zaki Wahhaj, Reader in Economics, University of Kent, UK. … Continue reading →

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Deprivation of liberty does not mean deprivation of the right to education: youth deprived of liberty require more attention in Latin America

Posted on 9 February 2021 by GEM Report

By Javier Gonzalez, Director of SUMMA and Manos Antoninis, Director of the GEM Report Read in Spanish About 16% of imprisoned individuals in the world are in Latin America and the Caribbean, including 27,000 young people deprived of liberty. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Inclusion, right to education, Youth | Tagged Inclusion, prison education, right to education | 3 Comments

Are private actors the solution to achieve SDG 4?

Posted on 26 February 2020 by GEM Report

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 →

Posted in private schools, private sector, privatisation, right to education, Uncategorized | Tagged 2021 GEM Report, private schools, private sector, privatisation, right to education, SDG4 | 1 Comment

Global Action week for Education: Civil society urges citizens to claim their right to education

Posted on 7 May 2019 by GEM Report

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 | 1 Comment

Undocumented children cannot go to school in South Africa: ‘The system is letting them down’

Posted on 28 February 2019 by GEM Report

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 →

Posted in immigrant, immigration, migrant, migration, Refugees and displaced people, right to education, Uncategorized | Tagged 2019 gem report, immigrants, migrants, migration, right to education | 4 Comments

Education is not a privilege, it’s a legal right

Posted on 5 November 2018 by GEM Report

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 | 9 Comments

Free education for all in Sierra Leone? Can it happen?

Posted on 17 September 2018 by GEM Report

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 | 5 Comments

Charting the Pacific: the importance of national monitoring reports for mapping education trends and challenges in the region

Posted on 29 August 2018 by GEM Report

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 →

Posted in monitoring, right to education, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged education-2030, monitoring, pacific community, right to education, sustainable development goals | 1 Comment

Radwan: “My school said ‘We don’t want wheelchairs any more’”

Posted on 26 July 2018 by GEM Report

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 | Leave a comment

‘I feel left behind’ says Fred, a blind student from Malawi

Posted on 23 July 2018 by GEM Report

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 →