How you can take part

Karl Grobl/Education Development Center

How you can take part

  1. Sign up to our campaign. We will not share your details with other partners, but will contact you with campaign updates, materials, and successes!
    • Your voice will be added to a petition for the international group leading decisions on our global education goal, the SDG 4 Steering Committee, to make the call for the right to education to be enforced one of their core recommendations when they meet in February 2018.
    • By signing up, we will also inform you when there are bills or constitutional reforms going through parliament in different countries worldwide that would reflect their international obligations related to the right to education in their national law. These could include bills to ban child marriage, corporal punishment or to make primary and secondary education free, for example. We will ask you to join us in sending a multitude of tweets and messages to relevant parliamentarians to ensure education bills are passed.
  2. Send us a video clip: We are running a video campaign from December 10th, Human Rights Day, and want you to send in clips to tell us whether your government is guaranteeing everyone’s right to education. Make it short (5-10 seconds or so). Record it on your phone if you want.
    • Your video clip could include examples, such as ‘We have no toilets in our school’, ‘Some children in my country can’t afford to go to school but education is supposed to be free’, ‘We have no textbooks to work from’, ‘Children in my country are being shut out by a school because of their ethnicity’. Go to the campaign webpage to submit video, and share it via social media using #WhosAccountable. Read the brief on the GEM Report webpage for the types of video clips to submit.
  1. Write a blog, or opinion piece to send to your local media about your engagement with this campaign. Share it with us too on gemevents@unesco.org so that we can see about sharing it on the Right to Education Initiative blog and the GEM Report’s World Education Blog.

Let’s work together to ensure governments take their human rights obligations seriously.

Whatever you do along these lines, keep us informed so that we can support you, and encourage other campaigners to do the same.

How you can take part

  1. Sign up to our campaign. We will not share your details with other partners, but will contact you with campaign updates, materials, and successes!
    • Your voice will be added to a petition for the international group leading decisions on our global education goal, the SDG 4 Steering Committee, to make the call for the right to education to be enforced one of their core recommendations when they meet in February 2018.
    • By signing up, we will also inform you when there are bills or constitutional reforms going through parliament in different countries worldwide that would reflect their international obligations related to the right to education in their national law. These could include bills to ban child marriage, corporal punishment or to make primary and secondary education free, for example. We will ask you to join us in sending a multitude of tweets and messages to relevant parliamentarians to ensure education bills are passed.
  2. Send us a video clip: We are running a video campaign from December 10th, Human Rights Day, and want you to send in clips to tell us whether your government is guaranteeing everyone’s right to education. Make it short (5-10 seconds or so). Record it on your phone if you want.
    • Your video clip could include examples, such as ‘We have no toilets in our school’, ‘Some children in my country can’t afford to go to school but education is supposed to be free’, ‘We have no textbooks to work from’, ‘Children in my country are being shut out by a school because of their ethnicity’. Go to the campaign webpage to submit video, and share it via social media using #WhosAccountable. Read the brief on the GEM Report webpage for the types of video clips to submit.
  1. Write a blog, or opinion piece to send to your local media about your engagement with this campaign. Share it with us too on gemevents@unesco.org so that we can see about sharing it on the Right to Education Initiative blog and the GEM Report’s World Education Blog.

Let’s work together to ensure governments take their human rights obligations seriously.

Whatever you do along these lines, keep us informed so that we can support you, and encourage other campaigners to do the same.