On 15th of July, RTE participated in a webinar organised by UNESCO on ‘Ensuring quality of learning and well-being for young children in the context of COVID-19’ and contributed with a short statement made during the roundtable, highlighting the human rights dimension of early ch

On 3rd of July, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Dr Koumbou Boly Barry, presented her new report on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the right to education at the 44th Session of the UN Human

On 17 July, the North Gauteng High Court in South Africa ruled that learners are entitled to receive school meals as part of the National Schools Nutrition Programme (NSNP), which was suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

[London] 21 July 2020. In eastern Ukraine, education is under attack. Since the armed conflict started in February 2014, more than 750 schools have been damaged or destroyed, dozens of children and teachers have been attacked, and there have been at least 37 cases of military use of schools. All of which has had profound effects on the right to education of the 670,000 children living in the areas most affected by fighting.

On 9 July 2020, the Global Coalition for the Protection of Education Under Attack (GCPEA) launched the Education Under Attack 2020 report. The report describes violence and threats of violence against students, teachers, professors, and education personnel, and military use of schools and universities, in 37 countries where GCPEA documented at least 10 reports of attacks on education in the first two years of the reporting period (2015-2019). 

On 17 June 2020, the South African Constitutional Court ruled that independent (private) schools are required to afford parents and learners a fair opportunity to be heard on whether a decision to terminate a contract with the school is in the best interests of the children concerned.

On 15 June 2020, the European Roma Rights Center published a press release on a decision of the Versailles Administrative Court of Appeal that enhanced the right to equal access to education, particularly for Romani children. 

The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Felipe González Morales, has published a report following his visit to Hungary in July 2019.

On 28 May, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 9 September as the International Day for the Protection of Education Under Attack. 

Her Highness Sheikha Moza of Qatar, Chairperson of Education Above All and UN Sustainable Development Goals Advocate, who led the campaign, stated: 

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