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You Need To Know This!
- Over 110 million of the world’s children, two thirds of them girls, are not in school.
- Of the world’s 875 million illiterate adults, two thirds are women.
- During the 1990s, gender parity in primary school enrolment improved in all regions world-wide and in nearly two thirds of the countries with available data.
- Half of the girls who live in developing countries (excluding China) will be married by their 20th birthday.
- Increasing girls’ time in school is one of the best ways to foster later, chosen marriage.
- Education is a fundamental human right! Every child is entitled to it. It is critical to our development as individuals and as societies, and it helps pave the way to a successful and productive future.
- When we ensure that children have access to a rights-based, quality education that is rooted in gender equality, we create a ripple effect of opportunity that impacts generations to come.
- Education enhances lives. It ends generational cycles of poverty and disease and provides a foundation for sustainable development.
- A quality basic education better equips girls and boys with the knowledge and skills necessary to adopt healthy lifestyles, protect themselves from HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, and take an active role in social, economic and political decision-making as they transition to adolescence and adulthood.
- Educated adults are more likely to have fewer children, to be informed about appropriate child-rearing practices and to ensure that their children start school on time and are ready to learn.
Finally
- A rights-based approach to education can address some of societies’ deeply rooted inequalities. These inequalities condemn millions of children, particularly girls, to a life without quality education and, therefore, to a life full of missed opportunities.
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