Your right to education: A handbook for refugees and displaced communities

Education is a human right. No matter where you live—no matter who you are—everyone is entitled to education. Even if you have been forced to leave your home and live in another town or village, a camp for displaced people or outside your country, you still have the right to go to school. The right to education is protected in many international agreements, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Developed with funding from the Pearson Foundation, the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children created Your Right to Education: A handbook for refugees and displaced communities to raise awareness of everyone’s right to education. Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie, three-time Coretta Scott King Honor Award-winner, the handbook uses drawings that readers at all levels can understand.

We hope that you will share Your Right to Education with children, young people and adults in your community to help them better understand the right to education, how it fits with other human rights and the benefits that education may bring. We also hope that Your Right to Education will serve as a tool to discuss these issues in depth and to encourage action to expand and improve education in displaced communities.