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The 2020 Global Education Monitoring Report recognizes the contexts and challenges facing countries in providing inclusive education; the groups at risk of being excluded from education and the barriers individual learners face, especially when various characteristics intersect; and the fact that exclusion can be physical, social (in interpersonal and group relations), psychological and systemic, as requirements may exclude, for instance, the poor (e.g. fees) or migrants and refugees (e.g. documentation). It addresses these challenges through seven elements, considering how they contribute to…
Summary
In the present report, submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 37/20, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights provides an overview of the legal framework and practical measures to empower children with disabilities. She focuses on empowerment through participation and inclusive education, and analyses how to foster the personal and public decision-making of children with disabilities, their inclusion in the community and their protection from abuse, exploitation and violence. The High Commissioner concludes the report with a number of recommendations to…
South Africa is a young nation, one in which more than 18 million children comprise roughly 37 percent of the population. For about 70 percent of them, however, the future is bleak. They live in the poorest households and are exposed to inhumane violence and abuse. They have limited access to quality education, especially early childhood education (ECD). They also lack care and support from parents and other adults, and reside in areas where assistance for children with disabilities is virtually non-existent.
Save the Children South Africa will be the champion for these children by…
Objectives
Cox’s Bazar Education Sector and Child Protection Sub-Sector partners conducted the Joint Rapid Education and Child Protection Need Assessment (JRNA) between the 4th to 6th December 2017. The main objective of the JRNA was to identify education and child protection needs, priorities and capacities of Rohingya boys and girls in the camps, settlements and host community in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh to inform and provide the evidence-base for the 2018 Joint Response Plan (JRP). The assessment was based on the agreed common approach by the Global Protection Cluster and Global…
This report provides essential data and information on educational challenges faced by nearly 50 million uprooted children around the world. It notes that some of these children and their families migrate in pursuit of better education or job opportunities, while others are forced from their homes because of conflicts or natural disasters. Whether they are refugees, internally displaced people or migrants, the report concludes, uprooted children are still children who have a right to education – and the safety, stability and opportunity that education can provide.
The report…
This report presents the key findings of a scoping study on the links between education and children’s care. The study involved a literature review in English, French and Spanish; key informant interviews; and consultations with 170 children, carers, teachers and other stakeholders in Guyana, India, Russia and Rwanda.
The evidence presented in this report suggests that a lack of access to quality education is a key cause of inadequate care. Children who are pressured or forced away from families and into exploitative work, early marriage or life on the streets are a greater risk of…
This leaflet is a mapping of Save the children’s role and work in promoting the engagement of fathers. It presents some of the evidence of the benefits of involving fathers and some of the strategies used by the organization and others. Among the benefits highlighted:
- As fathers get more involved and share the care and domestic work burden, women’s economic empowerment advances.
- As fathers get involved, maternal health-related outcomes improve.
- As fathers get more involved from the start, there are better child development…
The UN General Assembly (UN GA) adopted a resolution during its 68th Session, proposed by Fiji on behalf of the Group of 77 and China, on Preparations for and observance of the twentieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family (A/RES/68/136). Particularly worth noting is the decision by the UN GA to devote one plenary meeting during the 69th session in 2014 to this topic, “in order to discuss the role of family-oriented policies in the elaboration of the post-2015 development agenda”…
This International Labour Organization (ILO) brief introduces a new international standard adopted in June 2012, the Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No. 202), that provides guidance to member States in building comprehensive social security systems and extending social security coverage by prioritizing the establishment of national floors of social protection accessible to all in need. The Recommendation was adopted nearly unanimously by government, employer, and worker delegates of the ILO’s 185 member States. The brief underlines that…
This International Labour Organization (ILO) document introduces a new international standard adopted in June 2012, the Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No. 202), that provides guidance to member States in building comprehensive social security systems and extending social security coverage by prioritizing the establishment of national floors of social protection accessible to all in need. The Recommendation was adopted nearly unanimously by government, employer, and worker delegates of the ILO’s 185 member States.
Of particular…