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April 1, 2025 Commentary

The UN Needs Your Expertise on Pre-Primary and Secondary Education

Secondary school girls in a classroom in a middle secondary school in Sédhiou, southern Senegal.

April 1, 2025 Dispatches

Japan Makes High School Education Free – Again

New Budget Advances Equal Opportunities for All Students

February 10, 2025 Commentary

Australia Should Support a Global Right to Free Education

A pupil at a free government pre-primary school, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, November 2022.

February 5, 2025 Dispatches

Chinese Authorities Shutter Schools in Eastern Tibet

Police Detain, Forcibly Disappear, Prominent Tibetan Educators

A security guard outside the Shangri-La Key School in Kardze prefecture, Sichuan province, China, September 5, 2023.

January 27, 2025 News Release

Egypt: Declining Funding Undermines Education

Adequate Budgets Needed to Tackle Inadequate School Infrastructure, Teacher Shortages

An Egyptian teacher instructs students on the first day of the academic year at Orman school, in Cairo, Egypt, September 22, 2024.

January 23, 2025 News Release

Tanzania: Protect Right to Education in Pregnancy, Parenthood

Expedite Legal, Policy Reforms Recommended by African Child Rights Body

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January 9, 2025 Statement

Submission to the Special Rapporteur on Education Regarding Safety in Education

December 16, 2024 Statement

Ecuador: Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

98th Session

December 2, 2024 Report

Egypt: Education Restricted for Refugees

Convoluted Residency Requirements, Costs, Discrimination Impede Access to Schools

Sudanese students attend a class at a school teaching Sudanese curriculum, in Giza, Egypt, September 23, 2024.

November 20, 2024 Commentary

Organizing for a new treaty on free public education

November 20, 2024 Statement

Submission to the OHCHR on Quality Education for Peace and Tolerance

November 2024

November 18, 2024 Statement

Ghana: Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

100th Pre-Sessional Working Group

November 18, 2024 Statement

Uganda: Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

100th Pre-Sessional Working Group

November 15, 2024 Commentary

Thailand: Time to Champion Free Education

November 6, 2024 Dispatches

Bogotá Global Meeting Should Commit to Ending Sexual Violence in Schools

Governments Should Announce Concrete Measures to Prevent and End Scourge

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