With the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989, the world made a promise to uphold Children’s Rights: Every Right, for Every Child, Everywhere.
And yet, schools – the principal institution by which countries realise Children’s Right to Education – have received a free pass to violate children’s other Human Rights. This is why, in 2001, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child admonished “Children do not lose their human rights by virtue of passing through the school gates”.
This session will present why educational practices (in schools, homes, and elsewhere) need to be fundamentally transformed to bring them into alignment with Children’s Rights, and present a free, participatory mechanism (the Rights-Centric Education Quality Assurance System) that can support that transformation.
