Education, Human Rights, and Tolerance
To celebrate International Human Rights Day, EI General Secretary Fred van Leeuwen says we must look to the instruments of the United Nations and its agencies that enshrine those rights in international law and culture.
As the world marks International Human Rights Day, it does so in what are trying times around the globe. Amid an ever-increasing conflict between the rights of people and the rights of corporations, citizens are bearing witnessing to the fraying of democratic principles. And when we look at the state of public education in too many countries, the situation is no different. To recognise the occasion in the context of these concerns, the Education International (EI) General Secretary shares his thoughts on why education is an essential right: