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February 13, 2017 Commentary

Harassment Is Denying Refugee Children on Nauru an Education

Children sent to Nauru by Australia for “offshore processing,” August 2016. Parents and children reported that students from families of refugees and asylum seekers are frequently bullied by Nauruan students.
February 13, 2017 News Release

Pakistan: Mass Forced Returns of Afghan Refugees

UN Refugee Agency Complicit in Government Coercion

An Afghan refugee family forced out of Pakistan stands by a hired truck laden with their possessions after an overnight journey, October 2016
February 9, 2017 Dispatches

Migrant Children Turned Away from Schools in Russia

Denying Access to Education on Lack of Residency Status is Illegal

The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Moscow.
February 8, 2017 News Release

UN: North Korea Exploiting Children

Forced Labor and Discrimination Will Top Child Rights Committee Briefing

NK CRC Presser 20170207
February 2, 2017 Dispatches

Philippine Education Department Says No to Condoms

Setback for Efforts to Curb Fast-Growing HIV Epidemic

Students receive free condoms at an event organized by the United Nations Population Fund in Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, July 11, 2014.
February 1, 2017 Dispatches

South Dakota Lawmakers Withdraw Bill Targeting Transgender Youth

Other States Should Abandon Discriminatory Proposals

The South Dakota State Capitol building in Pierre, South Dakota, February 2016.
January 27, 2017 Dispatches

South Dakota Governor Pledges to Veto Anti-Transgender Bill

State Lawmakers Double Down on Baseless Fearmongering

The South Dakota State Capitol building in Pierre, South Dakota, February 2016.
January 25, 2017 Letter

Human Rights Watch submission to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in advance of its 60th pre-sessional review of the Russian Federation

January 24, 2017 Statement

Human Rights Watch Submission on Nauru to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

January 23, 2017 Dispatches

Syrian Refugee Kids Still Out of School in Turkey

Biggest Barrier to Children’s Education is Parents Out of Work

Maya, 9, reads a school textbook in her family home. She enjoys attending her local public school in izmir, on turkey’s west coast, where she is one of four Syrian students in her class.
January 17, 2017 Dispatches

Still Out of School in South Africa

Government Should Tackle Discrimination and Exclusion Against Children With Disabilities

Rito, 8, lives in Diepsloot, Gauteng Province.
December 21, 2016 Dispatches

After a Grim 2016, Some Good News for Children

Progress in Fight Against Child Soldier Use, Violence, Child Marriage

Internally displaced children attending classes at a displacement camp in Maiduguri, Borno state, September 2015.
December 16, 2016 Commentary

Toxic Homophobia Still Festers in America's Schools

It Gets Better, Just Not Here

Josh Greer, a student who has been the target of bullying and discrimination in school, writes in his journal in his bedroom in Cache Country, UT, October 2016.
December 16, 2016 Commentary

Lost Years: Secondary Education for Children in Emergencies

Fahd, 15, originally from Syria, is not in school. Instead, he works in construction in the Bekaa Valley.
December 8, 2016 Commentary

How the EU Can Make Its Syria Aid Go Further

Wa’el, 13, and Fouad, 7, originally from Idlib, study outside their home in Jounieh. Their mother, Kawthar, 33, struggled to enroll them in school, and eventually withdrew them due to concerns about the quality of education and transportation costs of US$

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