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- Instance of
- economic, social and cultural rights
- Subclass of
- human rights
- Part of
- international law
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- Category:Education rights
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- WikiForHumanRights 2019
- described by source
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- main regulatory text
- Convention on the Rights of the Child
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Syrian refugee students, Lebanon, 2016
The right to education has been recognized as a human right in a number of international conventions, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which recognizes a right to free, primary education for all, an obligation to develop secondary education accessible to all with the progressive introduction of free secondary education, as well as an obligation to develop equitable access to higher education, ideally by the progressive introduction of free higher education. In 2021, 171 states were parties to the Covenant.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “right to education” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.