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Financing education and update on education in emergencies 2011, para. 99
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- Those in charge of the provision of education in emergencies must consider the requirements for meeting quality educational standards. Dedicated attention must be paid to improving school curricula, promoting human rights education and addressing the psychosocial needs of students and teachers.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Financing education and update on education in emergencies 2011, para. 98
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- States must take specific measure to guarantee the education of girls and marginalized groups in situations of emergency. Specific efforts are required to eliminate persistent or emerging patterns of discrimination and to remove physical, financial, cultural and linguistic barriers that contribute to furthering inequalities during periods of emergency
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- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Financing education and update on education in emergencies 2011, para. 91
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- Collecting information during emergencies requires specific strategies to overcome the various obstacles faced in such circumstances. These obstacles may include difficult logistics, physical insecurity, the political and ethical implications of activities in rapidly changing environments, and the technical challenges of working with mobile populations and populations with unusual demographic compositions.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Financing education and update on education in emergencies 2011, para. 89
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- Limitations in data collection in emergency situations continue to affect humanitarian efforts as a whole. Lack of capacity to accurately assess education needs limits the possibilities for accurately designing and evaluating education initiatives in emergency contexts. As already mentioned, poor monitoring further results in invisibility and consequent impunity in situations where schools are directly targeted by violence.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Financing education and update on education in emergencies 2011, para. 88
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- The provision of learning achievement certification is another concern related to the quality of education in emergency contexts, in particular for students in refugee schools. Specific strategies are required to ensure that, even in times of crisis, students have their achievements adequately monitored, documented and recognized.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Financing education and update on education in emergencies 2011, para. 86
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- The EFA Global Monitoring Report 2011 describes a number of issues critical to ensuring quality education for students affected by or at risk of conflict. They include ensuring that children can learn in their mother tongue, particularly at the early stages, rethinking the teaching of history and religion so it illustrates different perspectives on conflict-sensitive issues, and promoting non-violent school environments.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Financing education and update on education in emergencies 2011, para. 80
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- Despite the obvious resource constraints experienced in emergencies, neglecting the impact of discrimination and structural inequalities in education while planning, implementing and evaluating education policies in these situations can lead to further marginalization and in some cases contribute to a recurrence of conflict.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Financing education and update on education in emergencies 2011, para. 69
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- Attacks against schools and institutions of higher education violate human rights and humanitarian law. Nonetheless, as recently reported by the Secretary General, attacks against schools are a significant concern and a growing trend. Insecurity still prevails in many education institutions located in conflict zones, with long-lasting consequences for education systems and students.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Financing education and update on education in emergencies 2011, para. 66
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- The Education For All - Fast Track Initiative is working to increase its support to fragile States, but so far has lacked the capacity to deliver financing in acute emergency settings. In addition to bilateral support, a number of additional financing modalities exist to finance education in emergencies, but these are still clearly insufficient.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Financing education and update on education in emergencies 2011, para. 56
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- The General Assembly, in its resolution 64/290, requested the Special Rapporteur to include in his next interim report to the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session an update to the report on the right to education in emergencies submitted in 2008 by his predecessor (A/HRC/8/10) in order to identify gaps and remaining challenges in ensuring the right to education in emergency situations.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The right to education of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers 2010, para. 47
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- In the case of refugees in camps, although the desirable language and curricula is noted as “ideally” that of origin, education providers should engage in broad consultation and act to ensure that the most appropriate curriculum is followed.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Equality of opportunity in education 2011, para. 49
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- Other groups vulnerable to limited opportunities in education and requiring targeted support include persons with disabilities, children living in the street or without parental care, migrant workers and their families, refugees, internally displaced persons and those affected by natural disasters or conflict. Moreover, nomad populations, including pastoral populations who remain deprived of equal opportunities in education, deserve special attention, especially in Africa.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Financing education and update on education in emergencies 2011, para. 97
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- States must ensure that disaster risk and safety considerations are factored into the planning, design, construction and reconstruction of educational facilities. Disaster risk reduction and preparedness notions should be embedded in education policies and curricula. Participatory processes involving students and their communities must be used to ensure local hazard assessments and preparedness.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Environment
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Equality of opportunity in education 2011, para. (a)
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- Update on previous report on education in emergency situations: Despite efforts and international pledges to ensure full enjoyment of the right to education in areas affected by conflict and natural disasters, these situations are still central factors in the exclusion of children from schools, and in the deterioration of education. The General Assembly requested the Special Rapporteur to include in his report to the sixty-sixth session an update to the report on the right to education in emergencies.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Financing education and update on education in emergencies 2011, para. 100
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- Further investments are required to ensure systematic data collection on the situation of education in emergencies. States and international and non governmental organizations providing support to education in emergencies should work on the development of a common framework for the assessment and reporting of met and unmet education needs in contexts of emergency. Such a framework must take into consideration human rights obligations regarding the right to education.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Financing education and update on education in emergencies 2011, para. 87
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- The effective teaching of literacy, numeracy and life skills, such as health preparedness and conflict resolution, is crucial to enhancing resilience during periods of emergency. School staff must be given adequate incentives, and have their capacity enhanced, to give appropriate attention to the psychosocial needs of students, using resources and making schedule arrangements that allow for recreational and expressive activities, as well as referring severely affected students for additional support.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Financing education and update on education in emergencies 2011, para. 85
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- As discussed above, the inadequate and short-term funding of emergency and transitional education programmes deeply affect the possibilities of addressing serious deficiencies that result in very low levels of quality in education. Moreover, the overall tendency of humanitarian work to focus solely on primary education limits investment in early childhood care and development, and in secondary and higher education. This bias greatly limits prospects of progression for students and increases the challenges for training teachers.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Financing education and update on education in emergencies 2011, para. 83
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- Enrolment in school does not alone ensure the fulfilment of the right to education if, for example, the quality of the education provided does not correspond to adequate standards. Resource constraints faced in periods of emergency do not justify overlooking basic requirements to ensure quality education, such as the presence of qualified teachers, the availability of adequate educational materials, adequate real teaching time and improved classroom environments.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Financing education and update on education in emergencies 2011, para. 79
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- Efforts to ensure gender parity in education are particularly relevant in this context. Attention has been drawn to the pervasive harm of sexual violence during conflict, which directly and indirectly affects female teachers and students. Insecurity on the way to and from and within schools or colleges appears as a central element in the exclusion of girls from the education system. The lack of separate sanitary facilities in emergency schools can also constitute a major barrier to girls' education.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Financing education and update on education in emergencies 2011, para. 73
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- Beyond ensuring accountability for attacks against schools, targeted efforts are also required to prevent the occurrence of attacks against schools and other education institutions and to prepare them for situations of insecurity in order to minimize the damage armed conflict may cause. Finally, dedicated efforts are required to assist victims in their recovery and to ensure appropriate individual and collective reparation for these education-related violations.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Financing education and update on education in emergencies 2011, para. 61
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- General Assembly resolution 64/290 reflects States' recognition of the urgency of ensuring the realization of the right to education as an integral element of humanitarian assistance and response. Debate and research efforts within the United Nations system are helping to unveil what has been called a "hidden crisis" by the EFA Global Monitoring Report. Thematic days of discussion focused on the topic were conducted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child in 2008 and the General Assembly in 2009.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The right to education of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers 2010, para. 65
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- The value of such programmes, particularly if appropriately funded, sustained, monitored and evaluated, is widely recognized. Nonetheless, such non-formal education programmes are not a legal right and are often geographically and temporally limited, with more remote refugee camp settings being particularly underserved. This suggests that universally accessible, State and intergovernmental agency-provided, non-formal (adult) education programmes (including vocational training) are necessary.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The right to education of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers 2010, para. 36
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- The Special Rapporteur highlights the issues facing families in conflict-affected areas, especially those on precarious incomes. Pertinent is the comment of a refugee who stated that: “shortage of food forces parents to use their children to work”; and another who stated that: “an empty stomach does not have ears”. In such contexts, food and shelter are prioritized over payment of education fees (where imposed) and indirect costs to quality education.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The right to education of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers 2010, para. 68
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- Of concern, however, is the inconsistency of policy and provision, most notably in refugee camps, the result of a lack of funding in quality and quantity of early childhood education programmes. This inconsistency contributes directly and indirectly to lifelong marginalization.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Protecting education against commercialization 2015, para. 70
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- With little or no effective control, the negative effects of privatization on the right to education in several countries can already be seen. For example, a phenomenal increase in low-cost private schools in Pakistan, which now enrol over 40 per cent of all students, has exacerbated inequities at all school levels, thereby heightening instabilities and violence in conflict-affected provinces. In Nepal, private providers, who can register as companies and sell education services, continue to flout government guidelines. The growth of fee-paying, for-profit schools in Morocco is creating a system that privileges those with means, with the risk of developing a two-speed education system. In South Africa, where private schools have become increasingly popular among the middle classes, the national human rights commission recently launched investigations into the for-profit Curro Foundation School.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Assessment of the educational attainment of students 2014, para. 28
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- Assessing the peacebuilding role of education is also important, especially in conflict situations and in the phase of post-conflict reconciliation. "Education in the twenty-first century needs above all to teach children what is arguably the single most vital skill for a flourishing multi-cultural society - the skill of living peacefully with other people … No country can hope to establish lasting foundations for peace unless it finds ways of building mutual trust between its citizens - and the place to start is in the classroom." An important consideration in assessing the educational attainments of students is whether their behaviour patterns reflect their understanding of, and commitment to, learning to live together.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Justiciability of the right to education 2013, para. 35
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- Finally, in case of inter-State conflict, recourse can be made to the International Court of Justice by one State against another State for protecting the right to education of its citizens, as provided for under UNESCO’s Convention against Discrimination in Education. In this respect, the advisory opinion rendered by the International Court of Justice in response to the United Nations General Assembly resolution on what legal consequences arose from Israel’s construction of a wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, considering the rules and principles of international law, is a historic example in showing how the right to education can be safeguarded by the world court. The International Court of Justice held that the construction of the wall in Occupied Palestinian Territory is a violation of international law and impedes the enjoyment of various human rights, including that to education.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Report on the Post-2015 Education Agenda 2013, para. 91
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- Education is crucial for conflict prevention, peacebuilding and promoting solidarity; its importance as a global unifying force must be recognized in the future development agenda.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Normative action for quality education 2012, para. 36
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- The Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) developed Minimum Standards for Education for a variety of different stakeholders, aimed at ensuring quality in coordinated humanitarian response that meet the educational rights and needs of people affected by disaster. They include standards relating to access, a secure learning environment, teaching and learning, and education policy. In his report to the General Assembly in 2011 (A/66/269), the Special Rapporteur also highlighted the importance of paying attention to quality in education provided in the context of emergencies.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Financing education and update on education in emergencies 2011, para. 96
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- States must ensure systematic monitoring, documenting and reporting of violations of international human rights and humanitarian law committed against members of education communities and education institutions and settings. The recent adoption by the Security Council of resolution 1998 (2011) must be followed by enhanced attention to the situation of education in future efforts for monitoring violations of child rights during armed conflict. Domestic, regional and international accountability mechanisms, including those of the military, should be fully cognizant of, as well as systematically address, the obligations of State and non-State actors with respect to the right to education and other legal protections guaranteed to members of education communities and institutions. Specific efforts are required to strengthen the capacity of education providers to prevent and respond to attacks.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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