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UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON THE RIGHT
TO EDUCATION
REPORT TO THE UN 2011 - EQUAL
OPPORTUNITY IN EDUCATION
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Multiple Gender Dimensions
47. 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.