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THE WEEK IN RIGHTS | SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
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With your help, both France and Canada have signed the Safe Schools Declaration. Let's tell the UK it should be next!
ALL children should have the right to a safe education. However, around the world, schools are attacked or being occupied by military forces and armed groups in conflict zones.
This endangers the lives of students and teachers and hundreds of thousands of children are denied their right to education.
The United Kingdom can support a global effort to better protect schools during times of war. Sixty-nine countries have already endorsed the Declaration. It’s time the UK did so, too!
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