Lack of Education for Women

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Lack of Education for Women

• A Violation of Human Rights
• By Aouatif Ansari

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• Article 26 states
• Everyone has the right to education. Education
  shall be directed to the full development of the
  human personality and to the strengthening of
  respect for human rights and fundamental
  freedoms.

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• If Education is a human right why are women
  denied the right to Education?
• In the world 130 million children do not have a
  primary education of that 130 million two thirds
  of them are females.

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• Investing in womens education yields one of the
  highest returns that equip women with the skills,
  knowledge, and self confidence required for
  carrying the role of better parents, workers, and
  citizens which are regarded as a permanent
  solution to a number of economic and social
  problems that improve the quality of life.

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Economic

• Creates wages
• Wages that are produced by women are more
  likely to go towards the children.
• Professional role models
• With education women can further their
  advancement in professional fields.

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Social

• Female Genital Cutting (FGC)
• "The memory of their screams calling for mercy,
  gasping for breath, pleading that those parts of
  their bodies that it pleases God to give them be
  spared. I remember the fearful look in their eyes
  when I led them to the toilet, I want to, but I
  cant. Why Mum? Why did you let them do this to
  me? Those words continue to haunt me. My blood
  runs cold whenever the memory comes back."
  -Gambia. (Center for Reproductive Law and Policy.
  1994. Violations of Womens Reproductive Rights
  A Selection of Testimonials from Around the
  World.)
• In central Africa Republic 48 percent of women
  with no education have been cut while only 23
  percent of women with secondary education have
  been subjected to the practice. Educated women
  are four times more likely to oppose genital
  cuttings for their daughters and granddaughters

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• Illiteracy
• Around the world 860 million people are
  illiterate of those 860 million 573 million are
  women.
• Fertility
• With each year of education, female fertility
  drops 5 to 10

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Quality of Life

• Child Mortality
• An additional year of education reduces mortality
  rates of 1,000 women by 3
• In Africa, the child of a woman who has not been
  to school has one in five chance of dying before
  the age a five
• HIV
• Women in Sub-Saharan Africa are more than 1.5
  times likely than men to contract HIV which makes
  up 65 of the population with HIV/AIDS.

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Solutions

• Offer Free Tuition
• Build schools closer to villages
• Free transportation
• Implementing
• United Nations Millennium
  Development Goals.

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