Human Right to Edu­ca­tion Project (HREP)

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Case Descrip­tion

The U.S.-based Insti­tute for Jus­tice & Democ­racy in Haiti (IJDH) and its Haiti-based affil­i­ate, Bureau des Avo­cats Inter­na­tionaux (BAI), launched the Human Right to Edu­ca­tion Project (HREP) to help poor fam­i­lies enforce their right to uni­ver­sal pri­mary edu­ca­tion under Hait­ian and inter­na­tional law.

HREP fights to pro­vide oppor­tu­ni­ties for Hait­ian chil­dren and help Haiti meet the demands of a mod­ern econ­omy, by open­ing doors for Hait­ian chil­dren that Brown v. Board of Edu­ca­tion opened for African-American stu­dents in the U.S. Like the move­ment that pur­sued the Brown case, HREP employs a rights based approach com­bin­ing grass­roots advo­cacy — lob­by­ing, demon­stra­tions and media work — with an inno­v­a­tive law­suit on behalf of chil­dren excluded from pri­mary school.

Full descrip­tion of HREP

Meet the Plaintiffs

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News Arti­cles

• Report: Poor coun­tries face edu­ca­tion cri­sis — Sep­tem­ber 20, 2010
• Protests Grow­ing as Earth­quake Sur­vivors Demand Right to Edu­ca­tion and Shel­ter — Sep­tem­ber 13, 2010
• Haiti’s Schools — August 16, 2010
• Edu­cat­ing Haiti’s Most Vul­ner­a­ble — July 9, 2010
• In Haiti’s coun­try­side, schools are in short sup­ply — May 20, 2010
• Aid Group Seeks $2 Bil­lion for Hait­ian Schools — May 16, 2010
• In ruined Haiti schools, edu­ca­tors see oppor­tu­nity — March 1, 2010

Edu­ca­tion in Haiti

• Edu­ca­tion in Haiti: The Way For­ward — Jan­u­ary 1, 2008
• Doc­u­ment de Stratégie Nationale Pour la Crois­sance et la Réduc­tion de la Pau­vreté: Pour Réus­sir le Saut Qual­i­tatif (French) — Novem­ber 1, 2007
• Edu­ca­tion Pour Tous: Edu­ca­tion For All — June 1, 2007
• Haiti: Early Child­hood Care and Edu­ca­tion Pro­grammes — Jan­u­ary 1, 2006
• Min­is­tere de la Plan­i­fi­ca­tion et de la Coop­er­a­tion Externe: Edu­ca­tion et Pau­vreté en Haiti (French) — Decem­ber 1, 2005
• Enquete sur les con­di­tions de vie en Haiti — July 1, 2003

Reports on the Right to Education

• Sum­mary Sub­mis­sion to the UN Uni­ver­sal Peri­odic Review of Haiti (IJDH-BAI, Lawyers’ Earth­quake Response Net­work) — March 24, 2011
• Uni­ver­sal Peri­odic Review: Right to Edu­ca­tion Report (Asan­ble Vwazen Solino) — March 24, 2011
• Edu­ca­tion and Con­flict in Haiti: Rebuild­ing the Edu­ca­tion Sec­tor after the 2010 Earth­quake (United States Insti­tute of Peace) — August 1, 2010
• Focus­ing on the Chil­dren: Uni­ver­sal Edu­ca­tion — A Renewal of Haiti’s Edu­ca­tion Sys­tem — July 27, 2010
• Focus­ing on the Chil­dren — Uni­ver­sal Educ­tion: A Renewal of Haiti’s Edu­ca­tion Sys­tem (Haiti Advo­cacy Work­ing Group) — July 21, 2010
• Out­come State­ment: Con­fer­ence on the Right to Edu­ca­tion of Minori­ties in the Amer­i­cas (Span­ish and Eng­lish) — Sep­tem­ber 16, 2009
• The Edu­ca­tion for All Devel­op­ment Index — Jan­u­ary 1, 2009
• RFK Right to Edu­ca­tion Report — March 1, 2008
• Le Droit à l’Éducation : Un Droit Légalement Reconnu à Chaque Enfant (French) — July 1, 2006
• Edu­ca­tion for All: The Qual­ity Imper­a­tive (Sum­mary) — Jan­u­ary 1, 2005

Links

• UNICEF — Haiti gen­eral site
• UNICEF — MDG 2: Achieve Uni­ver­sal Pri­mary Education
• UNESCO — Edu­ca­tion for All
• UNESCO — Haiti gen­eral site
• FAFO (Nor­we­gian orga­ni­za­tion study­ing social pol­icy, inter­na­tional devel­op­ment) — Haiti gen­eral site

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