Links to recent news and analysis on the Global Goal to provide quality basic education for all children, youth and adults.
300,000 teachers in DRC going unpaid
22/7/2022: Congolese families cheered in 2019 when President Félix Tshisékedi ordered the country’s schools to provide free and compulsory primary education. At least 3 million more children enrolled in school. But DRC’s schools depend on informal teachers reliant on parent donations which are no longer permitted.
Source: African Arguments
A call to expand the international right to education
6/6/2022: Leading humanitarians have signed a statement calling for the key target in the Sustainable Development Goal for education to be cemented in international law. This would ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality pre-primary education, and free, equitable and quality secondary education.
Source: Human Rights Watch
Bangladesh shuts largest private school in Rohingya camps
28/3/2022: Bangladesh has been sheltering about 850,000 Rohingya refugees from neighbouring Myanmar since a military offensive in 2017. Closure of the school is a further blow to the educational prospects of thousands of children stuck in the camps.
Source: CNA
Taliban backtracks on school re-opening for girls
28/3/2022: The Taliban leadership in Afghanistan has decided to keep girls’ schools closed until school uniforms are designed in accordance with Afghan customs, culture, and Sharia. Amnesty International is calling on the international community to make women’s and girls’ rights to education a red line during negotiations with the Taliban de-facto authorities.
Source: Amnesty International