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Sue E. Gollifer; Hermína Gunnþórsdóttir; Renata Emilsson Peskova – Human Rights Education Review, 2024
As a signatory to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which has been incorporated into domestic policy, Iceland has a legal obligation to respond to children's linguistic human rights in schools. Increasing language diversity is addressed in both policy and practice, informed by the inclusive education principles that underpin the…
Descriptors: Native Language, Civil Rights, Accountability, Multilingualism
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Willems, Kurt; Vernimmen, Jonas – European Educational Research Journal, 2018
The aim of this article is to describe the human rights obligations a State bears in educational matters with concerns to the current influx of refugees. The right to education is a fundamental human right guaranteed by many international treaties. As a result, the impression may arise that everyone, not only legal citizens but also all those…
Descriptors: Refugees, Civil Rights, Access to Education, International Law