Egypt: Education Restricted for Refugees

Beirut — Convoluted Residency Requirements, Costs, Discrimination Impede Access to Schools

Tens of thousands of refugee and asylum-seeking children in Egypt are out of school, in many cases due to significant bureaucratic registration barriers and a lack of free, publicly available education, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should immediately remove the barriers keeping refugee and asylum-seeking children out of school, and international partners should urgently support…