Insightful, humorous and filled with surprising information, How We Are Failing the Right to Education reveals how governments are failing to respect the human rights they have promised to uphold. With lively anecdotes and astonishing flashbacks from the author’s time as an aid worker, this book opens our eyes to the world around us, offering hopeful change. Ian T. Werrett spent several years working in Southeast Asia with children denied education, before returning to the UK to become a teacher of human rights. Werrett guides the reader through human rights law, and its shortfalls, as he explores how we are failing the right to education and how we can fix it.