Right to education facts for kids

The right to education is one of the human rights, but it is not used by everyone. It is thought that all children should go to school for primary education from the age of three years, to the age of ten years. Furthermore, all children should have access to secondary education, and higher education. However, many children around the world cannot or do not go to secondary education or higher education.

The right to education is written in Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 14 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The right to education has also been re-stated in the 1960 UNESCO Convention against Discrimination in Education, 1st Protocol of ECHR and the 1981 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.

It is also listed in the European Convention on Human Rights, Protocol 1, Article 2. Some national constitutions name this right, for example the Belgian constitution (former article 17, now article 24) or the Dutch constitution (article 23). the right to education give preference to all the children and help for her rights of education.

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• Economic, social and cultural rights
• Literacy
• Scholarship

Images for kids

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  Syrian Refugee students, Lebanon, 2015

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  Girl student in Mogadishu

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  A student teaching other students in Mogadishu

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  Manila Science High School in Manila, Philippines

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  Geography in Montessori Early Childhood at QAIS

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  U.S. soldiers and school children at the Regional Institute of Active Learning in Bahrain

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  Malala Yousafzai, activist for female education

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  Distribution of free textbooks to children in a school in Assam

See also

In Spanish: Derecho a la educación para niños