Right to Education
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Primer: The Right to Education Act, 2009
This primer was prepared in 2016 before the campaign's sixth national convention
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Back to School? The Worst Places in the World to be a School Child in 2010 (2010)
Somalia and Haiti topped this list of the world's worst places to be a school child. This report prepared for the Global Campaign for Education warned that poor countries were teetering on the brink of an education crisis. It called on world leaders meeting at the United Nations in New York for the MDG Summit to make funding for education a priority to meet the target of universal access to basic schooling by 2015.
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Education for All: Beyond 2015
This review was prepared for the 6th Collective Consultation of NGOs on Education for All (CCNGOEFA)
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End Corporal Punishment: The Right to Protection and Dignity (2009)
National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights and UNICEF India
This toolkit was developed with information on corporal punishment and how the media can report respectfully on children's right to protection from violence.
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Gender, Equality and Education: A Report Card on South Asia (2010)
Asian South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education
This report with a foreword by Martha Nussbaum used a gender lens to score and grade countries across South Asia on the basis of each country's abilities to nurture gender equality in education. This report originated in partnership with United Nations Girls Education Initiative (UNGEI) and will be launched by ASPBAE national coalitions and members across Nepal, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
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Miles to Go: Education Challenges in Commonwealth Countries (2009)
Commonwealth Foundation and ASPBAE
This independent review presented at the 17th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (17CCEM), Kuala Lumpur monitored the progress of, challenges in and lessons learnt in the quest for Education for All (EFA) across Commonwealth countries.
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No Excuses: Global School Report (2008)
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Right to Education and the Total Abolition of Child Labour (2008)
National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR)
These briefing papers were prepared for the National Convention on the Abolition of Child Labour and Right to Education, New Delhi, December 2008
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Must Do Better (2004)
Asia South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education (ASPBAE)
This report investigates the performance of 14 developing country leaders in the Asia Pacific region in their commitment to basic education and concludes that governments 'Must Do Better'.
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Free, Quality Education for Every Afghan Child (2006)
Half of the children in Afghanistan still do not go to school despite a 500 per cent increase in enrolments in the last six years. With the establishment of democracy, the main symbol of national regeneration lay in the dream of educating every child – boy and girl. However, there remain many obstacles to achieving this dream.
