Education
Concern growing over the commercialisation of education in Ghana
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and education unions, including Education International (EI), its affiliates and partners, are sounding alarm bells amidst growing privatisation and commercialisation of education in Ghana.
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Kenya: latest UN report shares concerns on quality of education and increasing inequality
Education in Kenya is under scrutiny following a new United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) report published at the beginning of February. For Committee Member and Rapporteur for Kenya, Olga Khazova, the growth of unmonitored private education providers is a cause for growing concern as it directly affects the quality of education. Her questions were reflected in the Committee’s “Concluding Observations.”
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US$1.4 billion needed to get every Syrian child back in school, say aid agencies
Ghinwa, 7, and her brother Alaa, 11, at Al-Khalidia Al-Khamisa informal settlement in Homs, Syria. January 2016
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Tanzania makes secondary education free for all
The policy follows a decision made in November last year instructing public bodies in the country to make secondary education free for all children.
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Djibouti: Education International calls for release of teacher unionist and human rights defender
Omar Ali Ewado, Deputy General Secretary of the Union of Primary School Teachers
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Human Rights
Ringing FOWPAL’s Peace Bell for the World:Nobel Peace Prize Laureates’ Visions and Actions
Protecting the World’s Cultural Diversity for a Sustainable Future
The Peace Bell Resonates at the 27th Eurasian Economic Summit
Declaration of World Day of the Power of Hope Endorsed by People in 158 Nations
Puppet Show I International Friendship Day 2020