Education and Transitional Justice: Opportunities and Challenges for Peacebuilding

The aim of this report is to provide practitioners and policy-makers in both transitional justice and education with conceptual clarity and practical guidance for developing synergies between their respective fields in responding to past human rights violations. Drawing from a comparative approach that examines different experiences throughout the world, this report does not offer a blueprint for addressing past injustices through education, but, rather, considerations that should be taken into account when framing policy that is based on the particularities of a given context.

'Our Kids Are Bombed': Schools Under Attack in Yemen

The conflict has had a brutal impact on education in Yemen; 34% of children in the country have not gone to school since the conflict began in March 2015. As of October 2015 1.8 million children were not in school. In some cases parents and children are deterred from going to school because of fear of airstrikes, while in others, schools have been rendered unusable due to the conflict either because they have been damaged or destroyed.

“When I Picture My Future, I See Nothing” Barriers to Education for Syrian Refugee Children in Turkey

This important new report documents the major obstacles that prevent Syrian refugee children from getting formal education in Turkey, which is hosting more than 2 million refugees from the Syrian conflict that began in 2011. The government adopted an important policy in September 2014 that formally grants Syrian children access to public schools, but key obstacles including a language barrier, social integration issues, economic hardship, and lack of information about the policy, remain one year later.

Educación y Paz en Colombia: La Capacidad de Transformar

Cuando hizo su discurso para aceptar el Premio Nobel en Literatura en 1982, el escritor colombiano Gabriel García Márquez citó a William Faulkner. “Me niego a admitir el fin del hombre,” había dicho el maestro, en aquel mismo lugar, treinta y dos años antes.

Treinta y dos años después, García Márquez falleció. Las palabras que eligió para concluir su discurso siguen resonando:

Date: 
25 Septiembre 2015

Convention relative aux droits de l'enfant

La Convention relative aux droits de l'enfant (CIDE) s'applique aux enfants de moins de 18 ans. Elle reconnaît l'éducation comme un droit à chaque enfant sur la base de l'égalité des chances. Son article 28 garantit la gratuité de l'enseignement primaire obligatoire pour tous, la gratuité progressive de l'enseignement secondaire qui devrait en tout état de cause être disponible et accessible à tous, et l'accessibilité à l'enseignement supérieur en fonction des capacités. Il énonce l'obligation de l'État de prendre des mesures concernant la fréquentation scolaire.

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