Sierra Leone
June 28, 2023
More than 70 Countries Pledge to Strengthen Right to Free Education
At the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva this week, more than 70 countries from every region of the world expressed support for “efforts to strengthen the right to education, including the explicit right to full free secondary and at least one year of free pre-primary education.”

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