WUNRN
Women's Commission for Refugee Women
& Children
YOUR RIGHT TO EDUCATION: A HANDBOOK
FOR
REFUGEES AND DISPLACED COMMUNITIES
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Education
is a human right. No matter where you live—no matter who you are—everyone is
entitled to education. Even if you have been forced to leave your home and live
in another town or village, a camp for displaced people or outside your
country, you still have the right to go to school. The right to education is
protected in many international agreements, including the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Developed with funding from the Pearson Foundation, the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children created Your Right to Education: A handbook for refugees and displaced communities to raise awareness of everyone's right to education. Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie, three-time Coretta Scott King Honor Award-winner, the handbook uses drawings that readers at all levels can understand.
We hope that you will share Your Right to Education with children, young people and adults in your community to help them better understand the right to education, how it fits with other human rights and the benefits that education may bring. We also hope that Your Right to Education will serve as a tool to discuss these issues in depth and to encourage action to expand and improve education in displaced communities.
Resources
- Download Your
Right to Education: A handbook for refugees and displaced communities
- Read our User
Guide for parents and educators.
- See our Activities
Guide for more ideas on how to share Your Right to
Education with children and young people in your community.
Your Right to Education is a second in a series of tools that the Women's Commission and the Pearson Foundation have developed to improve access to quality education for displaced communities. The first book, Right to Education during Displacement: A resource for organizations working with refugees and internally displaced persons, was developed for international and local organizations, the United Nations and governments working with displaced communities.
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