Blog The right to education does not cease in a crisis On May 24, JRS hosted a panel discussion on “A Crisis Unfolding: Access to Education for Refugees and the Forcibly Displaced.” Partnering with the Global Campaign for Education, JRS welcomed over 50 people to the event at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington D.C
Resource Right to Education Indicators This list of indicators is not definitive. It is a work in progress. Our aim is to ensure that we have the most comprehensive and practical list of indicators to monitor the right to education.
Resource Guide to Monitoring the Right to Education This Right to Education Monitoring Guide (‘Guide’) is an easy to use, step-by-step guide to monitoring problems in education, using a human rights-based approach. This Guide aims to demystify and simplify the monitoring process and ensure that the right to education remains the focus of your advocacy efforts.
Resource Fixing the Broken Promise of Education for All: Findings from the Global Initiative on Out-of-School Children Fixing the Broken Promise of Education for All, a report produced by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and UNICEF, could not be more timely. As the international community renews its commitment to advance every child’s right to education, it explores why global progress has stalled since the early 2000s, when millions of additional children poured into the world’s classrooms, and provides the data and analysis needed to move forward and reach every child excluded from education.
Resource What do Children Want in Times of Emergency and Crisis? They Want an Education When children living in crisis are asked what they need most, time and time again they tell us they want to continue their education. This is a collection of statements of what children want regarding their education.
Resource Education of Syrian Refugee Children: Managing the Crisis in Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan This report reviews Syrian refugee education for children in the three neighboring countries with the largest population of refugees — Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan — and analyzes four areas: access, management, society, and quality.
Resource United Nations Human Rights Mechanisms and the Right to Education in Insecurity and Armed Conflict This publication identifies trends in the practice and contribution of UN human rights mechanisms to the protection of education in times of insecurity and armed conflict and offers recommendations on how such protection might be strengthened.
Resource حقوق منذ البداية رعاية وتعليم الطفولة المبكرة "الحقوق من البداية" تهدف إلى إبراز حقيقة يجب أن تكون غير قابلة للجدل: أن كل شخص مؤهل للحق في الرعاية والتعليم منذ الولادة. ومع ذلك، لا يزال الواقع المروع هو أن 200 مليون طفل لا يحصلون على هذه الحقوق على الإطلاق: يقوم التقرير بفحص تخطيط الحكومات والميزانيات (بما في ذلك المساعدة من المانحين) ليظهر أن العديد منها لا يعتبر الطفولة المبكرة مؤثرة ولا حتى يدرجها في استراتيجيات التعليم أو الاستراتيجيات الوطنية.
Resource Rights from the start – Early childhood care and education Rights from the Start is intended to highlight a truth that should be uncontroversial: that every person is entitled to the right to care and education from birth. However, the shocking fact remains that 200 million children do not receive these rights at all: the report examines government planning and budgets (including donor assistance) to show that many do not prioritise or even include early childhood in the education or national strategies.
Resource Derechos desde el principio: Atención y educación en la primera infancia Este informe, escrito por Vernor Muñoz, ex Relator Especial de las Naciones Unidas por el Derecho a la Educación, pretende, desde su título en adelante, destacar una verdad incuestionable: que ni los derechos ni la educación empiezan cuando el niño o la niña ingresa en la escuela primaria