The Right to Education for Persons with Disabilities: Towards Inclusion

A Flagship under the Education for All Programme

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Global action week 21-27 April 2008

UNESCO information from here.

Jyväskylän tapahtuman tiedote ja ohjelma.

E-FLAG NEWS

Read more about flagship activities in 2007 from here.

A workshop in Cambodia

A regional workshop in Asia on implementing inclusive policies for assessing achievements towards EFA will be held in January 16-18, 2008. Expected participants will be UNESCO officers from Headquarters, Bangkok Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Phnom Penh, EFA Flagship Secretariat, around 25 Member States from 16 Asian Countries, Senior Education Officials of the Cambodian Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS), Education Donor Agencies (UNICEF, World Bank, Asian Development Bank) and Non-Governmental Organizations. More information and press release.

Global Monitoring Report 2008

Andrea Valentini, working with the Flagship Secretariat at UNESCO in Paris has gone through the recently published Global Monitoring Report 2008, entitled “Education for All: will we make it?” looking for interesting notes on inclusion and disabilities. Read more.

Working luncheon on inclusive education (UNESCO)

During the 34th session of the General Conference (29 October 2007), the Swedish and Finnish National Commissions hosted a working luncheon on promoting inclusive policies in education, in collaboration with UNESCO’s Education for All (EFA) Flagship on Inclusive Education. Read more from here.

New members of the secretariat

Ms. Johanna Arponen (FIDIDA) and Mr. Andrea Valentini (UNESCO) started in fall 2007 to work for the secretariat. Ms. Kicki Nordström (World Blind Union) and Ms. Penny Price (Rehabilitation International) joined in the editorial board of the WWW-site.

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 21 April 2008)