Network for Education and Academic Rights
The Network for Education and Academic Rights (NEAR) is a membership-based, non-governmental organisation which works to promote and protect academic freedom and academic rights. NEAR facilitates international collaboration between organisations and individuals active in issues of academic freedom and education rights, and seeks to defend the human rights of those in the higher education sector, including scholars, teachers and students.
NEAR was launched at the UNESCO offices in Paris on 18-19 June 2001. The UNESCO-sponsored event brought together representatives from over twenty human rights organisations, educational associations and professional bodies to establish a clearing house of information on academic freedom and education rights and facilitate joint action.
NEAR receives reports of academic freedom violations from its members or credible media sources, and works to increase awareness and response through its emergency action alert system, bulletins and media outreach. NEAR also works with academics and activists worldwide active on issues of academic freedom and academic rights to encourage joint action and build capacity through its series of international workshops.
Alerts
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1 | Iran | 92 |
2 | China | 38 |
3 | Russia | 34 |
4 | Zimbabwe | 32 |
5 | Israel / Palestine | 25 |
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NEAR News Ticker
SOUTH KOREA: Foreign student ban on 11 institutions
University World News
04 January 2012
Confucius Says ...
Inside Higher Education
04 January 2012
New Hampshire Ends Affirmative-Action Preferences at Colleges
The Chronicle of Higher Education
04 January 2012
Should all medical research be published?
BBC
04 January 2012
Sudan: End Violence Against Peaceful Protesters
Human Rights Watch
03 January 2012
Police detain 30 students
Hurriyet
02 January 2012
Pushed out of Harvard, professor returns fire
The Boston Globe
02 January 2012
Police beat up, arrest undergrads in UPSI over academic freedom demo
The Malaysia Insider
01 January 2012
Science and Security Clash on Bird-Flu Papers
The Chronicle of Higher Education
01 January 2012
Postgrad disputes mark in ‘anti-Israel’ row
The Times Higher Education
30 December 2011
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