21 March 2014
Human Rights Watch alarms about Iraq's new draft Law that would allow girls to be married from age nine, which would have negative impacts on girls' right to education. The current law sets legal age for marriage at 18, but allows for a judge to permits girls as young as 15 to be married in "urgent" case.The rates of early marriage of girls had risen drastically in Iraq in the previous decade. In... Read more
7 March 2014
Human Rights Watch releases today a report on child marriage in Malawi, ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8.The report, I’ve Never Experienced Happiness’: Child Marriage in Malawi, documents how child marriage prevents girls and women from participating in all spheres of life. It also highlights how the practice violates the right to education. Indeed, child marriage often interrupts... Read more
24 February 2014
As education is subject to increasing privatisation, a human rights analysis of the processes and impacts has remained largely neglected. The Right to Education Project publishes a new report - Privatisation of Education: Global Trends of Human Rights Impacts, together with a factsheet and a training module, to increase awareness of the issues surrounding the privatisation of education, from a... Read more
31 January 2014
Privatization of education in Morocco breaches human rights says the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in a recent report submitted to the Committee on the Rights of the Child.According to the report, the increasing privatization of education in Morocco is accompanied by a widening gap in access to quality education and inequalities between the most advantaged and the... Read more
31 January 2014
The Centre for Disability Law and Policy (NUI Galway), in association with the Institute for Human Rights and Critical Studies (KU Leuven) organise a conference on Article 24, UNCRPD is this a Brown v Board of Education moment? on 22 February 2014 in Galway, Ireland.This Conference is dedicated to understanding Article 24 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and looks at... Read more
28 January 2014
On 26th of January 2014, Tunisia adopted a new Constitution that guarantees the right to education in articles 38 and 46. This is an important step because the 1959 Constitution did not guarantee the right to education.According to Article 38, education is compulsory until 16. The State guarantees the right to public and free education at all levels and provides the necessary means to achieve... Read more
18 January 2014
A constitutional referendum was held in Egypt on 14 and 15 January 2014 and a new constitution was approved, which contains more detail on socio-economic rights, including education.The new Constitution guarantees the right to education (Article 19) as well as related rights, such as the right to technical and professional training (Article 20), academic independence (Article 21), teachers’... Read more
14 January 2014
Costa Rica has become the 10th country to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure, meaning that it will take effect in three months.Children whose rights have been violated - including the right to education - will soon be able to complain to the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which will then decide whether to review the... Read more
2 January 2014
As governments meet at the UN to debate the future sustainable development agenda, over 300 organizations have called for human rights to be at the core of the new framework.Published on International Human Rights Day, the joint statement “Human Rights for All Post-2015” will be presented to the Open Working Group (OWG) on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at its 6th session later this... Read more
23 December 2013
ActionAid has published a new report on Stop Violence Against Girls in School: A cross-country analysis of change in Ghana, Kenya and Mozambique.This report is the culmination of five years’ implementation of ActionAid’s multi-country project aimed at empowering girls and enabling them to enjoy their rights to education and participation in a violence-free environment.The uniqueness of this... Read more