Abstract:
Children’s human rights education refers to education and educational practices in schools and
educational institutions that are consistent with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Education in human rights is itself a fundamental human right and also a responsibility. The Preamble to the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) exhorts "every individual and every organ of society" to
"strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms.
Declaration of the Rights of the Child, Universal Right of Human Rights, The United Nations Educational,
Scientific and cultural Organization Convention , The Jomtien Declaration on Education For All, Contain
provisions promoting the right to education, including the right to compulsory and free primary education
and access "to all" to secondary, vocational and higher education. They also contain more detailed
provisions in support of the kind of education that should be made available to ethnic and other minority
groups.
At the national level, the possibility for the child to have access to preschool education is emphasized, as
well as free compulsory education for all children, even in cases when children may have reached the age of
compulsory education, but have not been able to attend it.
