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December 9, 2015 News Release

Africa: Strengthen Steps to End Child Marriage

Finance, Carry Out National Action Plans

A young, unmarried girl stands amid a herd of cattle outside Bor, the capital of Jonglei State. Cattle carry significant social, economic, and cultural importance for South Sudan's pastoralist ethnic groups, which use cows for payment of dowry.

November 11, 2015 Commentary

The last school bell in Krasnohorivka

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November 8, 2015 News Release

Turkey: 400,000 Syrian Children Not in School

Language, Economic Hardship Keep Young Refugees Out of Class

SEPTEMBER 2014. Syrian Kurdish refugees look out from the back of a truck as they enter Turkey from the town of Kobane (Ayn al-Arab), Syria, and surrounding villages. © 2014 Michael Christopher Brown/Magnum

October 9, 2015 Dispatches

Dispatches: The Inspiration That is Malala Caught on Film

Malala film premier

September 21, 2015 Commentary

Children of the Ghost Village

School in Nikishine, eastern Ukraine, damaged during fighting between Ukrainian government and rebel forces from Aug. 2014 to Feb. 2015.

September 9, 2015 Commentary

Classrooms shouldn’t be places of fear

September 7, 2015 Commentary

Obligations to Children with Disabilities Must Be Honored

Sipho, 14, who has epilepsy and an intellectual disability

September 1, 2015 News Release

Russia: Children With Disabilities Face Discrimination

Ensure Quality Education for All

A boy sits in his room at a state boarding school

August 19, 2015 Commentary

500 000 kids did not go school today

An estimated half-a-million children with disabilities have been shut out of South Africa’s education system, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today at a joint event with South Africa’s Human Rights Commission.

August 19, 2015 Statement

Human Rights Watch responds to South African government's statement

August 18, 2015 Witness

Witness: Sidelined in South Africa For Being Different

Sisandua Hani’s fight to keep her son in school

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August 18, 2015 News Release

South Africa: Education Barriers for Children with Disabilities

Discriminated Against, Excluded from Schools

An estimated half-a-million children with disabilities have been shut out of South Africa’s education system, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today at a joint event with South Africa’s Human Rights Commission.

July 7, 2015 News Release

Human Rights Watch UPR Submission to OHCHR: Estonia

May 22, 2015 Commentary

It doesn’t feel very ‘universal’ from here

May 19, 2015 Commentary

Millions of Indian children are being denied school education due to discrimination

A primary school in Sonbhadra district, Uttar Pradesh. The school’s principal told Human Rights Watch that the tribal students are a “big problem.” “Their main aim is to come and eat, not to study,” she said. “Just see how dirty they are.”

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