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Story from the Gaza Strip: How the restriction of freedom of movement has affected my right to education

Nadege Auguste teaches her daughters at home. Access to education is a huge challenge in Haiti

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ActionAid Calls on the Government of Haiti to Improve the Quality of Basic Education

Pupils in their classroom in Cambodia

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Consultation on the Impact of the Privatisation in/of Education on Girls’ Right to Education

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New Report by Human Rights Watch: “They Say We’re Dirty” - Denying an Education to India’s Marginalized

Palais de Nations, Geneva

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Human Rights Council Side Event: Privatisation and its Impact on the Right to Education - 12 June 2014

Palais Wilson in Geneva, Switzerland, headquarters of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

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Entry into force of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure

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South Africa: Back to Court for the Non-Delivery of Textbooks

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Senegal: Urgent Action Needed to Regulate Quranic Schools recommends Human Rights Watch in a New Report

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Iraq plans to legalize marriage for 9-years-olds, which would have negative impacts on girls' right to education

A 14-year-old girl holds her baby at her sister’s home in a village in Kanduku, in Malawi’s Mwanza district. She married in September 2013, but her husband chased her away. Her 15-year-old sister, in the background, married when she was 12. Both sisters s

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Human Rights Watch releases a report on child marriage in Malawi

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New Resources on Privatisation of Education from a Human Rights Perspective: Report, Factsheet and Training Module

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The New Egyptian Constitution improves the guarantee of the right to education