Accountability in education: Meeting our commitments
The second edition of the Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM Report) presents the latest evidence on global progress towards the education targets of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Informe de la Relatora Especial sobre el derecho a la educación sobre el papel de la equidad y la inclusión
En este informe, la Relatora Especial examina el papel que representan la equidad y la inclusión en el fortalecimiento del derecho a la educación, en particular en el contexto del logro de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible. La Relatora Especial concluye pidiendo a los Estados que adopten medidas positivas importantes para hacer frente a la discriminación, la inequidad y la exclusión en la educación a fin de asegurar que se logran los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible.
The state of the world's children 2013: children with disabilities
The 2013 edition of The state of the world’s children is dedicated to the situation of children with disabilities. The report examines the barriers – from inaccessible buildings to dismissive attitudes, from invisibility in official statistics to vicious discrimination – that deprive children with disabilities of their rights and keep them from participating fully in society.
World report on disability
The World Health Assembly (resolution 58.23 on 'Disability, including prevention, management and rehabilitation') requested the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General to produce a World report on disability based on the best available scientific evidence.
Include Us! A study of disability among Plan International's sponsored children
Based upon Plan International's dataset of 1.4 million sponsored children, the report compares sponsored children with a disability to those without, from 30 countries worldwide. The report, produced in collaboration with London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, reveals that children with disabilities in developing countries are being held back from an education. The findings will help Plan International - and other researchers and organisations - to improve responses to the needs of children with disabilities, particularly their health and education.
'I had a dream to finish school' - Barriers to secondary education in Tanzania
More than 40 percent of Tanzania’s adolescents are left out of quality lower-secondary education despite the government’s positive decision to make lower-secondary education free.
Increasing legal literacy on the right to basic education in South Africa
On the 15 February 2017, a partnership of civil society organisations that have been involved in rights-based struggles for access to a quality basic education will launch a Basic Education Rights Handbook.
Date:
14 Febrero 2017
Moore v British Columbia
The Supreme Court of Canada upheld a decision of the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal (the ‘BC HRT’) (reversing the decisions of both the British Columbia Supreme Court and the British Columbia Court of Appeal) that the Board of Education of School District No.
César Alan Rodríguez
En esta decisión, el Juzgado en lo Contencioso Administrativo y Tributario N. 1 de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires encontró que el derecho a la educación de un niño con discapacidad había sido vulnerado cuando la institución educativa no le otorgó un certificado oficial de finalización de sus estudios secundarios aun cuando el estudiante había cumplido con todos los requisitos de su proyecto pedagógico individual (PPI) porque no había cumplido con los contenidos mínimos bajo la normativa local.
Rapport annuel 2016 consacré aux droits de l'enfant : "Droit fondamental à l’éducation : une école pour tous, un droit pour chacun"
Ce rapport est le premier rapport du Défensuer des droits français à être consacré au droit à l'éducation depuis la création d'une autorité indépendante chargée de défendre les droits des enfants. Il porte sur l'effet des inégalités sociales et territoriales et des discriminations sur l'accès à l'école et sur le maintien dans l'école pour de nombreux enfants. Le rapport aborde les sujets ressortant le plus fréquemment des saisines reçues par l'institution et relatives aux difficultés de scolarisation des enfants, au sein de l'école publique.