Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
The Pearson Foundation works together with the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children to produce publications necessary for this exemplary non-profit’s advocacy work – research studies and reports, country case studies, field-friendly tools and training materials, video, and website tools.
For example, as part of the Women’s Commission’s campaign to promote access to quality education for displaced children and youth, the Pearson Foundation helped design and produce The Right to Education During Displacement: A Resource for Organizations Working with Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons. This field-friendly handbook lays out in simple language the rights of children everywhere to be educated, the international laws that guarantee these rights, and practical advocacy strategies that can be used on the ground to ensure that these rights are fulfilled.
More recently, we again helped publish Your Right to Education: A handbook for refugees and displaced communities. The brightly illustrated book, aimed at refugee children, young people and adults, raises awareness of the universal right to education, especially in areas of conflict. Offered in in English, French and Arabic, the 42-page book is illustrated by R. Gregory Christie, a three-time Coretta Scott King Honor Award-winner. His work has appeared in The New Yorker and has been honored as Best Illustrated Books of the year by The New York Times. The book can be used as a coloring book, a tool to facilitate discussion and a starting point for role-plays and skits about universal and inalienable human rights, the freedom from fear and abuse, the freedom to achieve one's dreams and the freedom to make well-informed decisions.
Defending rights