Refugee Forum: Drop Bureaucratic Barriers to Education
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An empty classroom in a closed public school is seen in Beirut, Lebanon, March 2, 2023.
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(Geneva) – Countries participating in the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva should pledge to end bureaucratic barriers to education for refugee children, Human Rights Watch said today. In multiple countries, refugee children are obliged to provide paperwork that many cannot obtain to be admitted to school.
At the refugee forum, which opens in Geneva on December 13, 2023, countries and other actors like United Nations agencies are asked to “pledge” steps they will take to realize a 2018 UN agreement, the Global Refugee Compact. One of the compact’s goals is that …read more
Source:: Human Rights Watch
