Academic Freedom 3: Education and Human Rights

by John Daniel, Manfred Nowak (Editor), Nigel Hartley (Editor)

This is the third annual report on academic freedom from the World University Service. It reports on the implementation of educational rights of girls and women, and ethnic and religious minorities. A contribution by the American Association for the Advancement of Science provides an overview of the UN mechanisms that monitor educational rights, and offers guidance for NGOs and individuals in monitoring and reporting on educational rights.

256 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1994

About the author

Born in South Carolina and raised in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., John Daniel has lived in the West since 1966. After attending and dropping out of Reed College in Portland, Oregon, he worked as a logger, railroad inspector, rock climbing instructor, hod carrier, and poet-in-the-schools. He began to write poetry and prose in the 1970s while living on a ranch in south-central Oregon. In 1982 he received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry at Stanford University, where he then took an M.A. in English/Creative Writing and taught five years as a Jones Lecturer in Poetry and a lecturer in Freshman English. He now makes his living as a writer and itinerant teacher in workshops and writer-in-residence positions around the country.