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A Will and a Way: Making Displaced Children’s Right to Education Enforceable

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  • Bill Van Esveld

    (Children’s Rights Division, Human Rights Watch, New York, NY 10118, USA)

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All children have the right to education without discrimination, but half of refugee children are out of school, far worse than global averages. Obstacles to education for refugee and migrant children include poverty and overstretched resources in host countries, and humanitarian donors and agencies have important roles and should ensure the right to education. However, policy barriers to education are key drivers of the education crisis facing displaced children. These policy barriers are internationally unlawful, but the children affected often lack standing under domestic law to demand a remedy. Countries with laws enshrining migrant, asylum-seeking, and refugee children’s rights to education and the European Union’s response to Ukrainian refugee learners provide examples that advocates can use to help raise the global floor for displaced children’s right to education. Advocates should press all countries to grant all children, including migrants and refugees, the enforceable right to education in domestic law.

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  • Bill Van Esveld, 2023. "A Will and a Way: Making Displaced Children’s Right to Education Enforceable," Laws, MDPI, vol. 12(1), pages 1-15, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jlawss:v:12:y:2023:i:1:p:16-:d:1052647
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    1. Ndibalema, Placidius, 2024. "Barriers to accessibility of learning among minority refugee children: A systematic literature review," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 156(C).

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