All children deserve the opportunity to be in school and learn so they acquire the skills and knowledge to thrive—regardless of their diverse educational needs. Despite a global focus on inclusive ...

Kathy Cologon currently receives funding from the Financial Markets Foundation for Children, The Asia Pacific Regional Network for Early Childhood (ARNEC) and consults to Children with Disability ...

The Salamanca Statement on Inclusion in Education was adopted at the joint UNESCO and Ministry of Education of Spain World Conference on Special Needs Education held in Salamanca, Spain, in 1994. The ...

I write this opinion piece as a non-disabled person commenting on the context of disability and education. As such, I’m taking up space online and in readers’ minds — and their limited time — on a ...

Around the world, children are excluded from schools because of disability, race, language, religion, gender and poverty. Inclusive education means that all children are in the same classrooms, in the ...

This text is only intended to provide introductory information about the topic. To find out about UNESCO's official position and actions in this field, please consult our relevant webpages and reports ...

IN 2021, the World Bank estimated that 15 per cent of the world’s population experiences some form of disability, with 80 per cent living in developing countries. In Jamaica, while strides have been ...

Comprehensive sex education is critical to young people’s sexual health and benefits all students, including LGBT youth. Earlier this year, the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Rep. Barbara Lee ...

Schools are complicit in [the] exclusion. There isn’t really a culture of accessibility institutionalized in the school because we [people with disabilities] have to make it work. —Edward Ndopu, ...