Right to Education During Displacement: A Resource for Organisations Working with Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons

As part of a campaign to promote displaced children and youth’s uninterrupted access to quality and safe education, the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children has produced a new resource entitled the Right to Education during Displacement: A Resource for Organisations Working with Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons.

This tool identifies the right to education and actions that individuals and organisations can take to fulfill these rights, with a focus on refugees, returnees and internally displaced people. It has been developed for local, regional and international organisations that work with displaced communities. The publication serves as:

• a training and capacity-building resource on the right to education for practitioners working with displaced populations and others;
• an awareness-raising tool to encourage humanitarian assistance agencies to implement education programmes - and donors to fund them;
• a call to action for organisations and individuals to promote access to and completion of quality education for all persons affected by crises.

Education is an internationally guaranteed human right, enshrined in treaties, conventions and resolutions. Children and youth have the rights to education no matter where they live, including if they are displaced and cannot access education services in their home area. 

The Women's Commission intends to revise this version based on feedback from around the world, translate it into other languages and develop an accompanyin training module.

Further information

• Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE): Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies, Chronic Crises and Early Reconstruction

• Forced Migration Review: Education and Conflict: Research, Policy and Practice