Category Archives: right to education

Latin American and Caribbean countries must address structural discrimination to create educational opportunities for all

Posted on 23 March 2021 by GEM Report

🔊 Listen to this blog Latin America and the Caribbean is characterized by wide and persistent disparity by ethnicity. By most measures of well-being, including education, ethnic groups tend to fare worse than the rest of the population. The various … Continue reading →

Posted in Equity, Human rights, Inclusion, right to education | Tagged 2020 LAC Report, Inclusion, target 4.5 | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in Gender, Inclusion, right to education | Tagged #Target 4.5, Gender, gender equality, Inclusion, right to education | Leave a comment

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

Suraj Yengde: Trying to leave his caste behind him to pursue his education

Posted on 22 May 2020 by GEM Report

Suraj Yengde was born in Maharashtra in India into the Dalit caste. His parents enrolled him into a Christian school where caste still mattered, but less than it does in the public system. India has a system of affirmative action … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Equity, Inclusion, right to education | Tagged 2020 GEM Report, Inclusion, inclusion champions | 5 Comments

Alejandro Calleja: A father fighting for his son’s right to an inclusive education in Spain

Posted on 19 May 2020 by GEM Report

English / Español Alejandro is one of many champions being highlighted by the GEM Report in the run up to the launch of its 2020 publication on inclusion and education: All means all, due out 23 June. In their own way, … Continue reading →

Posted in access, disability, Equality, Equity, Inclusion, legal rights, right to education | Tagged 2020 GEM Report, Inclusion, inclusion champions | 6 Comments

“Every child is like any other” – Robert Lumu wins Inclusion and Education photo contest

Posted on 10 April 2020 by GEM Report

Robert Lumu’s photograph of 9-year-old Jemba John, sitting and reading with his peers at his school in Central Uganda, where Albinism is still considered a curse, is the winner of the 2020 GEM Report photo competition on inclusion and education. … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, disability, Inclusion, right to education, Uncategorized | Tagged 2020 GEM Report, disability, Inclusion | 4 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

Accreditation, certification and recognition of non-formal education in the Arab States

Posted on 9 January 2020 by GEM Report

By Michael Cacich and Farida Aboudan, Educate A Child, a programme of the Education Above All Foundation The recent Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report 2019: Migration, displacement and education: Building bridges, not walls estimates annual education spending at US$4.7 trillion … Continue reading →

Posted in Arab States, Conflict, emergencies, immigrant, immigration, migrant, migration, Out-of-school children, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, right to education, Uncategorized | Tagged Arab States, arab states 2019, migrants, migration, non-formal education | 1 Comment

Parents and communities need to be engaged in migrant children’s education

Posted on 3 July 2019 by GEM Report

by Anna d’Addio, Senior Policy Analyst at the GEM Report “We were blind, now our eyes have been opened … the educated children help us see. (Zahra, mother)” (Changezi and Biseth, 2011) Family and community involvement is key to overcome … Continue reading →

Posted in Developing countries, Disaster preparedness, Equality, Equity, Ethnicity, fragile states, immigrant, immigration, Inclusion, Inclussion, Marginalization, migrant, migration, peace, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, right to education, Uncategorized | Tagged #SDG 4.5, #Target 4.5, conflict, education, intercultural education, migrant, migration | 2 Comments

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 →