-
This blog is written by the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report and is editorially independent from UNESCO
Translate
Tag Archives: RTE campaign
Drafting guiding principles on state obligations concerning private schools: Lessons and strategic considerations from a rights perspective
By Tom Lowenthal, OxHRH Managing Editor and DPhil Candidate, University of Oxford As the Oxford Human Rights Hub’s course, Learning Lessons from Litigators, helps us to understand, children will not be educated by lawsuits alone: Just as there are tactics … Continue reading
Posted in Human rights, private schools, privatisation, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged human rights, private schools, RTE campaign, SDGs, target 4.1
2 Comments
Human rights at the heart of education: the role of strategic litigation (Part II)
By Meghan Campbell, Lecturer-in-Law, University of Birmingham. Deputy-Director, Oxford Human Rights Hub Few people recognize that the courts can be an effective way to enable children to access inclusive, equitable education of good quality. However, to achieve this, human rights … Continue reading
Human rights at the heart of education (Part I)
By Sandra Fredman, Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub, Rhodes Professor of the Laws of the British Commonwealth and the United States, University of Oxford Education is at the heart of the global struggle to alleviate poverty and reduce … Continue reading
Why we need student advocacy
by Viktor Grønne – student, activist, and Danish UNESCO Youth Representative As we launch the 2017/8 youth version of the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report on how youth can help hold governments to account for education, the discussion naturally centred on … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, sdgs, Uncategorized, Youth
Tagged RTE campaign, target 4.1, youth
4 Comments
I believe my grandfather when he said ‘education will help you be whoever you want to be’
By Pegah Moulana, youth ambassador for the GEM Report Right to Education campaign When I was young, my grandfather once told me: “Education will help you to be whoever you want to be”. Looking back 10 years on, I know … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, right to education, Uncategorized, Youth
Tagged RTE campaign, target 4.1, youth
Leave a comment
#FeesMustFall: Developments in South African Fees Struggles
by Dylan Barry, a post-graduate physics student at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He headed up the #FeesMustFall News Media task team in 2015, and the #FeesMustFall Economic Research task team in 2016 at the University of … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Equality, Post-secondary education, tertiary education
Tagged finance, RTE campaign, south africa, Target 4.3
Leave a comment
“Education is far too important to be left solely to the government or educational institutions”
“I believe that it is no longer enough for us to pay lip service to education; now is the time to insist on transparency and accountability in education,” said Victoria Ibiwoye, youth representative of the SDG Education 2030 Steering Committee … Continue reading
Learn more from our international youth ambassadors – Join our digital launch event
This afternoon at 4 PM (GMT), the GEM Report will host a digital launch event for the 2017/8 Youth Report. The digital launch will bring together some of the key youth ambassadors for the GEM Report #WhosAccountable campaign on the … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, Uncategorized, Youth
Tagged accountability, right to education, RTE campaign, youth
Leave a comment
GEM launches new campaign to help citizens claim their legal Right to Education
Although the majority of countries recognize the right to education through international and national law, the fulfilment of the right to education is far from being a reality. This is why we have launched a campaign to make sure the … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, Human rights, Uncategorized, Youth
Tagged accountability, human rights, right to education, RTE campaign, youth
1 Comment
Students play a vital role in holding governments to account for education
The youth version of the 2017/8 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report on accountability was released today. It contains a call to action in the form of a global campaign, #WhosAccountable, to support the enforcement of people’s right to education ahead … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, Report, Uncategorized, Youth
Tagged accountability, right to education, RTE campaign, Target 4.3, youth
1 Comment
