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The right to education has been recognized as a human right in a number of international conventions, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which recognizes a right to free, primary education for all, an obligation to develop secondary education accessible to all with the progressive introduction of free secondary education, as well as an obligation to develop equitable access to higher education, ideally by the progressive introduction of free higher education. In 2021, 171 states were parties to the Covenant.[1]
In 2021, the new total of out-of-school children reached 250 million, and social inequality major cause.[2]
One place we are seeing a large increase of out-of-school children is Afghanistan, due to their exclusion of girls from school. Around the world, 16% of youth are not attending any sort of schooling, with the primary level of education sitting at 1 out of 10 children not attending. 48% of those children not attending school, are girls and young women. [1]
The Human Rights Measurement Initiative[3] measures the right to education for countries around the world, based on their level of income.[4]
- ^ United Nations Treaty Collections (2021). "International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights".
- ^ Staufer, Brian (2020). With Millions Out of School, the Countdown Begins to Get All Children into Quality, Accessible Education. Humans Right Watch.
- ^ "Human Rights Measurement Initiative – The first global initiative to track the human rights performance of countries". humanrightsmeasurement.org. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
- ^ "Right to education - HRMI Rights Tracker". rightstracker.org. Retrieved 9 March 2022.