2007: JOIN UP - Education Rights Now!
In 2007 Global Action Week focused on education as a human right. Over sixty years ago education was declared a basic human right for every person, and enshrined in the Universal Declaration on Human Rights in 1948. Since then, it has been reaffirmed in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966), the Conventional on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (1979) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), among many other international human rights instruments. Yet it is a right that is being denied to almost 1 billion people right now.
From 23 – 29th April, campaigners all over the world united under the slogan “JOIN UP for Education Rights Now!” Various exciting activities took place with children, parents, teachers, policy makers and other campaigners making human chains surrounding historical, political and government buildings to signify their joint efforts in support of education. In Senegal and Gambia there was an unprecedented cross border initiative with people from both countries joining hands in support of education. Others made colourful paper chains which were then handed over to policy makers to remind them that 2007 was the midway point for the Education for All (EFA) goals; that at current rates of progress many countries will not meet these goals by 2115 let alone 2015. Many others Joined Up electronically by logging onto the JOIN UP website and sending a message to world leaders.
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