The role of the Committee on the Rights of the Child in strengthening accountability for attacks on education in armed conflict
Journal: Frontiers in Education
Year: 2025

Education is increasingly under attack in situations of armed conflict, with increasing incidence of schools bombed, repurposed for military use, education politicized, and children denied access to learning. This 1 opinion piece examines how the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC Committee) is responding to these violations by integrating international humanitarian law (IHL), international human rights law (IHRL), international criminal law (ICL) and global accountability mechanisms i