The Right to Education for Persons with Disabilities: Towards Inclusion

A Flagship under the Education for All Programme

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CALL FOR PARTNERS: MEETING 20 MAY 2011, UNESCO HQ, PARIS0

Persons with disabilities remain the most marginalised in education, EFA fails to realise the Right to Education defined in the UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Read more...

EFA - Global Monitoring Report 2010

"Reaching the marginalized" is now available. More.

Conventions, recommendations and declarations

The material data-base includes now links to relevant UN conventions, recommendations and declarations related to inclusive education.

E-flag News

Find E-flag News December 2009 from here (Word document 90 kb).

A regional workshop in Chile

A regional workshop in Latin America on implementing inclusive policies for assessing achievements towards EFA was held in November 18-20, 2009 in Santiago de Chile, Chile.

The workshop was organised in-cooperation between UNESCO Head quarters, International Bureau for Education (IBE), UNESCO Santiago and the EFA Flagship on the Right to Education for Persons with Disabilities: Towards Inclusion as a joint activity following up on the 48th session of the International Conference on Education (ICE) in November 2008.

All Latin American countries were invited. Invited participants were Vice Ministers of Education, other high-level policy makers, Directors of Inclusive and Special Education units, NGO's and DPOs, UN agencies active in the region, donors and university representatives. There were 50 - 70 participants.

Agenda in English and Spanish.

Workshop presentations (in Spanish, a few in English).

Global conference on inclusive education, Salamanca, Spain, October 21-23 2009

57 countries participated in the conference. They adopted the Salamance conference resolution that

"reaffirm the commitment of the Salamanca Statement (1994) and commit to develop an inclusive education system in every country of the world"

and

"welcome the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (UNCRPD) and in particular Article 24, which gives new impetus to the Human Right of Inclusive education to be a process where mainstream children/students are supported to meet their academic and social potential and involves removing barriers in environment, attitudes, communication, curriculum, teaching, socialisation and assessment at all levels".

A new report "GLOBAL REPORT ON INCLUSIVE EDUCATION; Better Education for all When We are Included too" was lauched in the conference. More information regarding the conference, including both the resolution and the Global Report, is available from the Inclusion International WWW-page.

Inclusion International

A new UNESCO publication: Policy Guidelines on Inclusion in Education

Policy guidelines are available in English, French, and Spanish.

UNESCO video A World For Inclusion

The video is available from the internet site of the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) for all interested with multiple subtitle languages. Find the site from here.

Community Based Rehabilitation

The first Asia-Pacific CBR congress was held in Bangkok, Thailand (18-20 February 2009). There were over 700 participants (see a photo). Today CBR has to do much with education, see the CBR-matrix. CBR implementors have established networks for partnerships.

Kenneth Eklindh (UNESCO) gave a key note presentation "Education for all - an example of partnerships".

More about CBR.

Staff changes in secretariat

Ms. Mari Koistinen (Fidida) returned to and Ms. Jill Van den Brule left the secretariat.

The contents of this web-site were developed under a support from the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) for the Flagship initiative "The right to  education for persons with disabilities: Towards inclusion" of UNESCO advancing the Education For All programme. The contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the UNESCO, MFA, University of Jyväskylä, and FIDIDA, and you should not assume endorsements.

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"The right to education for persons with disabilities: Towards inclusion"
(Edited 1 April 2011)