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

Bill Van Esveld ()
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Bill Van Esveld: Children’s Rights Division, Human Rights Watch, New York, NY 10118, USA

Laws, 2023, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-15

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: refugee children; right to education; education in emergencies; humanitarian aid; Global Refugee Forum; human rights law; enforceability; migration; displacement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D78 E61 E62 F13 F42 F68 K0 K1 K2 K3 K4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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