Broken Chalk recommends that the government of South Africa addresses problems with equality and discrimination, education and support of LGBTQ+ community and child trafficking. In the last cycle South Africa received 243 recommendations, accepted 187 of those and 9% focused on quality education (SDG 4).
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Broken Chalk recommends that the government of Tunisia to address the high rate of school dropout, the high rates of repetition, disparities in access to, retention in, and the quality of schools. In the last cycle Tunisia received 248 recommendations, accepted 189 of those and 6% focused on quality education (SDG 4).
41st_Session_UN-UPR_FactSheet_TunisiaCover image by US Army Africa.
In the previous review in 2017, the United Kingdom received 227 recommendations, of which 96 were accepted. 24% of the recommendations focused on reducing inequalities. The biggest issue in the British education system is the class and wealth divide and the selectivity of the system based on socio-economic background.
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In the 3rd cycle Finland has received 153 recommendations, accepted 120 of those and 44% of the recommendations focused on reducing inequalities. In general, the quality fo education is high in Finland, but discrimination and inequalities appear in the field of education.
41st_Session_UN-UPR_FactSheet_FinlandCover image by Santeri Viinamäki.
Broken Chalk is an Amsterdam-based NGO established in 2020 and focused on raising awareness and minimizing human rights violations in the educational field. Together with our international sponsors and partners, we encourage and support the following activities/projects: removing obstacles in education; contributing to the achievement of peace and tranquillity in society through adaptation studies in an environment of intercultural tolerance; preventing radicalism and polarization, and eliminating the opportunity gap in education for all. Our goal is to work with global partners to remove barriers to access to education and take concrete steps to ensure universal access to education.
Issues related to human rights have recently become an increasingly popular subject of discussion among international organizations such as the United Nations (UN), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the European Union (EU), the Council of Europe (CoE), and the International Labour Organization (ILO). The international community has developed a number of initiatives and has taken practical steps to specify the role and responsibility of individual actors in protecting and respecting human rights. Poland has been actively involved in the process of creating a new approach to this issue at both national and international levels.[1]
By Annemeike Van Der Meer & Xchina Cekani
41st_Session_UN-UPR_Country_Review_PolandCover image by Olek Remesz.
[1] https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Issues/Business/NationalPlans/PolandNationalPland_BHR.pdf
