Source: Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Girls and women constitute the majority of those who remain deprived of education.The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has repeatedly expressed concern in its concluding observations at the low level of education of women and girls, and the prevailing obstacles to their access to education at all levels, especially the secondary and tertiary levels. The Special Rapporteur is of the view that the human rights framework is pivotal in the struggle against multiple forms of discrimination which women and girls in vulnerable and marginalized situations suffer. Educating women and girls should be viewed as a human rights imperative, rather than undertaken solely because of the potential benefits to one’s children or to society.

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