Global: Urgent Action Needed to Meet Education Deadline

Expand (c) 2016 Marco Tibasima for Human Rights Watch (London) – Governments should end all discrimination in children’s access to education and urgently strengthen policies and funding to ensure all children are able to benefit from their right to quality education, Human Rights Watch said today on the International Day of Education. Governments have 10 years left to meet the United Nations' 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which include commitments to guarantee that every child completes primary and secondary school, and is able to read and write. Governments have also committed…

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