EDUCATION: Your Right to Education - A handbook for refugees and displaced communities

Submitted by crinadmin on Wed, 23/06/2010 - 09:53

Education is a human right. No matter where you live—no matter who you are—everyone is entitled to education. Even if you have been forced to leave your home and live in another town or village, a camp for displaced people or outside your country, you still have the right to go to school. The right to education is protected in many international agreements, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Developed with funding from the Pearson Foundation, the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children created Your Right to Education: A handbook for refugees and displaced communities to raise awareness of everyone's right to education. Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie, three-time Coretta Scott King Honor Award-winner, the handbook uses drawings that readers at all levels can understand.

Further information

Right to Education during Displacement: A resource for organisations working with refugees and internally displaced persons (August 2006)

pdf: http://www.crin.org/docs/right_to_ed_handbook.pdf

Organisation:

Women's Refugee Commission

Attachment Link:

http://www.crin.org/docs/right_to_ed_handbook.pdf

Countries

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