The right to education in emergency situations: a rights-based assessment of the humanitarian response after the earthquake in Haiti

The overall aim of this thesis is to answer to the following questions:How and to what extent is the right to education protected in an emergency situation? Was a human right-based approach put in place by humanitarian actors in Haiti in 2010? In fact, he right to education has always to be respected, protected and fulfilled, even during emergency situations. After considering the international legal instruments that exists about the right to education, the thesis focuses on the specific case of Haiti. It analyses the humanitarian response put in place by UNICEF and Save the Children (the two co-leading organisations of the Education Cluster), their cooperation and their different approaches, tryng to understand the humanitarian approach is evolving towards securing human in every stage of an emergency.