Inclusive Education is at Risk in Brazil
Repeal New Segregated Education Policy for People with Disabilities
On August 17, Brazilian Minister of Education Milton Ribeiro made harmful remarks about children with disabilities, saying they "disturbed" other students and that some are "impossible to live with." Later, he apologized to "those who were offended"…
World Bank Presses Uzbekistan to End Forced Labor
Some Students, Teachers, Medical Workers Released
The recent release of 200,000 university students and some teachers and medical workers from forced labor picking cotton in Uzbekistan came shortly after World Bank President Jim Yong Kim's first meeting with the country's new president, Shavkat…
Serbian Children with Disabilities Left Out of School
Government Should Implement Law Providing for Inclusive Education
Today, September 1st, will be an exciting first day of school for most Serbian children. But for many children with disabilities, it will be just one more day without a chance to learn, make friends, and interact with peers and teachers. Take for…
Dispatches: Teacher Ignorance Lets LGBT Bullying Flourish
"I only read about LGBT people because I knew Human Rights Watch was coming to interview me," a teacher in Tokyo told me last November while I was researching bullying of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students in Japan's schools. …
Dispatches: Mishandling Teen Pregnancies in Sierra Leone
Pregnant teenagers and their right to education are in the spotlight again, this time as Sierra Leone tries to ban "visibly pregnant" girls from taking their exams in primary and secondary school. The "ban" comes just two weeks after President Jacob Zuma…
January 28, 2015 News
Dispatches: Wrong Message to Uzbekistan on Forced Labor
A report reveals that the World Bank's Inspection Panel, its quasi-independent accountability mechanism, won't investigate whether the bank is perpetuating forced labor in Uzbekistan, even though its initial examination found that bank projects in the…