We Are Displaced

Use these questions or activities to help gauge students’ familiarity with and spark their interest in the context of the work, giving them an entry point into the text itself.

Short Answer

1. How does access to education vary around the world? What factors might contribute to limits on education or being denied the right to seek education, specifically for women and girls?

Teaching Suggestion: It may be beneficial to provide students with resources to look up facts related to women’s education around the world. You also may consider breaking students into small groups or pairs to explore how women’s access to education varies around the world and to consider why this might be the case. With sensitivity in mind for individual circumstances, you might follow up the pair work with a whole-group discussion about what life is like for girls and women in a few of these places.

• The “Education” page of the Human Rights Watch website contains resources in the form of videos and articles for educators and students about how to defend dignity and equality at home and abroad. The resource contains a list of countries and locations around the world where education rights are compromised.
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