Dear Colleagues:

As part of a campaign to promote displaced children and youth’s uninterrupted access to quality and safe education, the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children is pleased to announce the availability of a new resource entitled the Right to Education during Displacement: A Resource for Organizations Working with Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons. This tool identifies the right to education and actions that individuals and organizations can take to fulfill these rights, with a focus on refugees, returnees and internally displaced people. It has been developed for local, regional and international organizations that work with displaced communities.

Right to Education during Displacement is a training and capacity-building resource, an awareness-raising tool and a call to action. We hope that it will serve as a useful resource within your institution and communities to improve access to quality education during emergencies and post-conflict reconstruction.

Click here to access this tool online: http://www.womenscommission.org/pdf/right_to_ed.pdf

 To request hard copies, please contact the Women’s Commission at: jennyr@womenscommission.org

The Women’s Commission intends to revise this version based on feedback from around the world, translate it into other languages and develop an accompanying training module. We’d greatly appreciate any comments; a feedback form is available online.

Jenny Perlman Robinson - jennyr@womenscommission.org
Senior Coordinator, Education in Emergencies
Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children

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