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Education

Ensuring that all children have access to inclusive and equitable quality education.

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Despite the pandemic prolonging the closure of schools...

Tsangkhar, Trashigang: Education is her only saviour. Or so it was until the coronavirus pandemic scare led to the closure of schools across the country...

Girls in a classroom

A New Era for Girls

a girl with her head on her hands

25 years of uneven progress: Despite gains in education, world still a violent, highly discriminatory place for girls – UNICEF

Two and a half decades after the historic Beijing women’s conference, violence against women and girls still not only common, but accepted

Afghan girls at the school

Barriers to education for adolescent girls in Afghanistan...

This brief looks at the profiles of out-of-school adolescent girls in Afghanistan, barriers to education, and policies and strategies for addressing them.

Kowsalya looks into the camera with determination, the background are outside scenes.

Changing lives by speaking up: Kowsalya’s story

[CRC Article 1 – the right to childhood; Article 28 – the right to a quality education] In India, Kowsalya is standing up for her right to education and...

Farah with her mother

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child...

“We live in a conservative society,” Farah said. “People here do not approve of girls going out and playing. The world outside was strange and unknown...

An adolescent girl, Kusma, looks into the camera with determination while holding a school book against a salmon-colored wall.

13-year-old Kusma’s struggle to become a doctor

[Youth Skills] Instead of letting her community what to do with her future, Kusma is telling her community of girl's rights to pursue their dreams....

Sumera sits on a bed with a colorfully-patterned quilt, the wall behind her is bright blue but faded. She is wearing a green hijab with a floral design while embroidering a bright blue, shiny fabric with sequins.

“I chose to invest in my siblings’ future” – Sumera’s story

[Youth Skills] In a region where girls who attend high school are the exception, Sumera has learned new skills in order to send her siblings to school.....

Yathusia looks confidently at the camera in her school uniform: braids (black hair), a white button-up and black tie. On the desk in front of her a textbook and notebook are open and pen is in her hand. In the dark, blurred background another student is sitting with her back to the camera.

In Sri Lanka, children are forced to abandon their dreams

[Youth Skills] Conflict took Yathusia's father, home, four years of education and her dreams. But she is still determined to make a career for herself.....