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Education in emergencies

30 Jul 2014

During the height of the 2011 crisis to Ethiopia, Djibouti and, most notably, Kenya, following the collapse of the in the Horn of Africa, she spent Somalian government of Siad Barre. [...] During 2011, the protracted crisis in the Horn of Africa intensified when the United Nations declared a famine in parts of southern Somalia, through a combination of drought and a lack of political foundation to mitigate the effects of the famine (UN News Service 2011). [...] An official working for UNHCR explained that and development of education programmes in the “half of the year, UNHCR is scrambling to provide earliest stages of an emergency and access to education enough water to refugees and the other half of the year, programmes by children and adolescents upon arrival” UNHCR is responding to the raging floods that emerge (UNHCR 2003, policy statement 8). [...] EDUCATION IN EMERGENCIES One leading authority on education in emergencies Education is a human right, and is stated as such under is the Sphere Project, a voluntary initiative that brings Article 26 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human together a wide range of humanitarian agencies to Rights;1 the Convention Relating to the Status of improve the quality of humanitarian assistance. [...] Education should also be added as the sixth the deteriorating environment within the camps, and to emergency response category in the Sphere Project’s provide the necessities of life, including protection and minimum standards guidelines, outlining minimum the right to education.
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Authors

MacKinnon, Hayley

Pages
13
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario

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