Lost years: Secondary education for children in emergencies
Bill Van Esveld - @billvanesveld, Elin Martinez - @Martinez_Elin, Bassam Khawaja - @Bassam_Khawaja
Wednesday, 21 December, 2016
Amin, 18, became a refugee when his family fled Syria for Lebanon five years ago. He has not set foot in school since. With his father unable to get legal status or work, responsibility for... Read more
Eight reasons why the Safe Schools Declaration matters
Sarah M. Field - @rightsstreams
Sunday, 27 November, 2016
‘I felt that humanity has ended. I mean, a place of learning, to be hit in this way, without warning… where is humanity? ...It is supposed to be illegal in any war to strike such places…’ A teacher’s... Read more
One step forward, two steps back - amendments to child labour legislation in India
Archana Mehendale
Friday, 16 September, 2016
Changes in legislation on child labour in India have been infrequent and hard to come by. The first comprehensive legislation on child labour was formulated in British India as The Employment of... Read more
Too many children left behind: Exclusion in the Inclusive Education System
Kate Paterson - @SECTION27news
Thursday, 18 August, 2016
A mother in Manguzi in northern KwaZulu Natal told SECTION27 of her 17 year old son, Siyabonga Dlamini who has never been to school because he is deaf and has never had the opportunity to learn sign... Read more
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Monitoring the Right to Education of Out-of-School Girls in Tanzania
Erica Murphy - @RTEProject
Monday, 25 July, 2016
Tanzania has one of the highest child marriage rates in the world. According to the UN Population Fund, 37% of girls are married by age eighteen. In Tanzania, as in many other countries, child... Read more
When is State Funding of Private Schools a Violation of Human Rights?
Sylvain Aubry - @saubryhr
Tuesday, 5 July, 2016
The announcement at the beginning of the year by the Ministry of Education of Liberia of its intention to outsource the management of all its pre-primary and primary schools to private providers has... Read more
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Reviewing Pakistan’s Implementation of Children’s Rights: Pending Right to Education Bills, Unchecked Privatisation, and Denial
Nida Mushtaq - @nedo182
Monday, 27 June, 2016
Pakistan’s implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Child, which it ratified in 1990, was recently reviewed by the UN Committee on the Rights of Child. The State party was represented by an... Read more
Some reflections on the risks that public-private partnerships pose for the realisation of the right to education
Maria Ron Balsera - @RTEInitiative
Thursday, 23 June, 2016
Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is an umbrella term that refers to the arrangement between a government and one or more private actors to provide a service, in this case, education. This arrangement... Read more
A Framework to Assess the Role of Non-State Actors in Education against Human Rights
Delphine Dorsi - @RTEproject
Thursday, 23 June, 2016
Non-State actors’ involvement in education has increased in many parts of the world over the past three decades, and private education is being promoted and explored by some education stakeholders as... Read more
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Monitoring the Right to Education in the Context of the 2030 Education Agenda
Erica Murphy - @RTEProject
Friday, 29 April, 2016
On 11 April, 2016 the Right to Education Project launched the Right to Education Monitoring Guide (‘Guide’) and Right to Education Indicators Selection Tool (‘Tool’) at the UCL Institute of Education... Read more

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