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Article 26 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

IS EDUCATION A RIGHT?

(1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.

(2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.

(3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

Diving Deeper

DIVING DEEPER

The key areas of our work includes:

• Gender-equitable access to quality education from early childhood to adolescence, including for children with disabilities, marginalized children and those living in humanitarian and emergency settings.
• Quality learning outcomes and skills development that come from strong education systems and innovative solutions.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

– Edward Everett

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

– Kofi Annan

“With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.”

-Malala Yousafzai

Some Quotes

“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”

– Confucius

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

– Nelson Mandela

“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.“ – Marian Wright Edelman

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”

The statement above is our mission statement. It is also a statement written by Victor Hugo. The reason of why we chose this statement is because we wanted to convey the message that education is right of every single child. According to us, we all live in our privileged worlds, full of joy, happiness and with the right to choose our career, which is the reason why we do not understand the gravity of living a life in poverty, in countries in conflict and being a child labor. So, as a privileged society we have the responsibility to ensure the future of children who are being kept in the prison of war, poverty, refugee crisis, exploitation and discriminated by the gender inequality.

In a nutshell, we want to implore everyone that this lost generation, who are not being educated as they should be, is the part of a world in which we privileged society are a part too. We want to implore people not to only donate money for a child education, but on the other hand we want them to give these children some of their time, compassion and we want them to open up their heart so that they can see children not as statistics but as real people. As Aristotele said: “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”, so our mission is also to grow a seed of campassion in people's heart.

Spokesperson

Priyanka Chopra is an actress of Hollywood and Bollywood , singer, film producer, and the winner of the Miss World 2000 pageant. She is a global UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, after serving as a National Goodwill Ambassador to India for 10 years. She is also a United Nations Foundation Girl Up Champion, and is involved in a number of efforts to protect children’s rights and promote the education of girls in India, including her namesake charity The Priyanka Chopra Foundation for Health and Education.

Priyanka Chopra