Forum: HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION 
Topic: The question of improving access to education for refugees. 
Main Submitter: China 
Co-Submitters: Bahrain, Bangladesh, Botswana, Croatia, Denmark, Gabon, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, Monaco, Vietnam, 
 
Reminding all nations that education is a basic human right as enshrined in Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the 1989 Convention of the Rights of the Child, 
 
Deeply conscious that the number of people who are forcefully displaced due to conflict, persecution and violence including terrorism has reached the highest level since WW2, 
 
Deeply concerned that 3.7 million refugee children are out of school over half of the school aged refugee population (7.1 million), 
 
Noting with concern that from March 2019 to March 2020, 48% of refugee children remained out of school, and only 6 in 10 refugee children participate in primary education compared to 9 in 10 globally, 
 
Alarmed by the under-resourced regions in which millions of refugees are located, meaning that even schools exist at those areas, they may already be stretched to breaking point, 
 
Fully alarmed by the fact that on average only 3% of refugees go onto higher level education (3rd level education), 
 
Further aware that in 2018, almost four in every five refugees were in protracted situations, meaning that refugee children are very likely to go through an entire school cycle, from age 5 to 18, in exile, 
 
Concerned by the fact that refugees often lack documentation, which are required inorder to grant them entrance to a local school in a new country, 
 
1. Calls for the creation of a joint UN committee of relevant bodies such as United Nations Childrens fund (UNICEF),United Nations Educational, scientific and cultural organisation (UNESCO), and the United Nations Human Commisioner for Refuges (UNHCR), to be called the United Nations Committee for the Education of Refugees (UNCER), dedicated to the improvement of education for refugees, performing such duties as: 

a. researching and compiling information about the standard of education provided to refugees across the world, especially in temporary refugee camps, and publishing a biennial report on the topic, 
b. providing financial support to member states responsible for the hosting of refugees, 
c. the creation and funding of language programs to aid refugees in acquiring the language of their host country and facilitate assimilation; 
 
2. Endorses an annual conference to be held Geneva, Switzerland in order to discuss the successes and failings of member nations and the UNCER in regards to educating refugees internationally, with the goal of international cooperation in this issue, as well as to discuss the findings of the UNCER's report; 
 
3. Promotes the creation of a mass media campaign in order to educate the populations of all member nations about the struggles refugees go through, with the goal of promoting tolerance in their new country, and especially in education environments; 
 
4. Requests the creation of programs supported by the UNHCR and UNCER aimed at training teachers both with standard teaching requirements and skills specific to the education of refugees; 
 
5. Suggests that the UN redirect aid and funding to reflect the need for education of refugees and reach the global target of 4% of humanitarian aid spending from the current 2.6%; 
 
6. Urges all governments to encourage local schools to accept refugee students and provide to their needs, keeping in mind the possibility of unstable housing/economic predicaments, integration issues including possible hostility towards refugees both in school settings and in everyday life, and education backgrounds that may not align with those of the host country; 
 
7. Asks for the creation and funding of adult education programs that are accessible to refugees and would be aimed at helping adult refugees gain the necessary requirements for and find stable employment; 
 
8. Draws attention to the lack of resources worldwide given to refugee children for 3rd level education and calls for support to be given to these children such as loans that can be distributed to those unable to afford their education and can be paid back within a fair and decent amount of time; 
 
9. Calls upon legislation to make school enrolment much more accessible for refugee children and youth, even in cases where they do not have the required documentation; 
 
10. Encourages the UN to grant facilities to help schools become more equipped to handle refugees while working alongside the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the UNCER in ways such as but not limited to: 
a. providing schools with necessary facilities like access to Physical Education, filtered drinking water, school meals, technological devices, a supply of teachers and SNAs to meet their student's needs, council in facilities and learning support, 
b. granting supplies to students that are necessary to education such as copybooks, pens, desks, chairs and learning materials, 

c. Resources for extra help for learning of the language of the country they have moved to 
 
11. Strongly recommends host governments to provide certified accelerated education programmes, giving disadvantaged, over-age, out-of-school children and youth the opportunity to cover the same ground as standard-age learners, but at a faster and more intensive pace with a condensed curriculum; 
 
12. Calling for further regionalization of refugee management to allow for easier cultural integration and the fostering of regional ties, managed by the UNHCR; 
 
13. Urges special education to be provided to young adults who cannot go into 3rd level education yet as they have had little to no access to education in the country they fled from; 
 
14. Strongly wishes for the government to pay teachers the adequate minimum wage of their country's law, and to provide for refugees in their education system free school lunches; 
 
15. Promotes the creation of a mass media campaign in order to educate the populations of all member nations about the struggles refugees go through, in order to promote tolerance in their new country, and especially in education environments. 
 
 
16. Calls for United Nation member nations to provide a support system and therapy services for refugees as funded by the UN, that may be affecting these refugees throughout their trouble to access education, this trauma may include but not limited to;   

a. violence and the torture which they may have experienced/endured  

b. loss of family and friends 

17. Endorses connected learning programmes online aiming to efficiently relocate volunteering teams to help refugee children and youth building connection with possible host countries by;