This is a crucial year for education. Children starting school this year will complete their 12 years of basic education by 2030. The United Nations’ fourth sustainable development goal — “Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all” — comes under the spotlight at the UN’s high-level political forum.
In 2017, 262-million children of primary and secondary schoolgoing age were out of school. Education in emergencies is a human rights atrocity that can no longer be ignored. Enough is enough. Society can no longer sit back and watch as children are forced out of school and in some cases, recruited as child soldiers by armed groups. Are we building a society that promotes war over education? The failure to solve these difficult challenges points, in part, to a continuing lack of the necessary political will and of inadequate investment in the education agenda.
To truly leave no one behind, civil society is mounting pressure on governments to fulfil their commitments to provide free, compulsory public basic education for all people, in particular for children, women and those from excluded communities. Without quality education for all, the future looks bleak. Citizens will lack skills to interrogate and actively participate as assertive holders of their basic human rights. Without quality and inclusive education, children with disabilities remain on the outskirts of society, attending special needs schools and taught in separate classes.
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