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February 1, 2016 Letter

Human Rights Watch submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child regarding South Africa

January 29, 2016 Letter

Letter and memorandum to donors attending the “Supporting Syria and the Region” conference

January 15, 2016 Statement

Submission to the CRPD on Draft General Comment No. 4 – Article 24

The right to inclusive education

January 15, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Are the "Doors for Learning" Open to all in South Africa?

Enelani

December 17, 2015 News Release

Dispatches: China’s School Construction Doesn’t Equal Inclusion

A wheelchair stands outside a classroom in the Beichuan Middle School in China's Sichuan province May 10, 2011.

December 11, 2015 Commentary

Where does the right to education stop?

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.

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