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Argument: Higher education is an international human right

Education is a right according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  • Francisco Komlavi Seddoh, Director of UNESCO’s Division of Higher Education – “education is a right recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Universities must be open not just to those who can pay but to all those who deserve to go there.”[1]
  • Katarina Tomasevski, “Globalizing What: Education as a Human Right or as a Traded Service?,” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Winter 2005, Volume 12, Issue 1, pp. 1-78.