Equality of opportunity in education 2011, para. 16

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Recent EFA Global Monitoring Reports highlight that the enjoyment of the right to education is severely limited by the phenomena of marginalization and exclusion. In 2009, the report stated that “progress towards the EFA goals is being undermined by a failure of governments to tackle persistent inequalities” based on income, gender, location and ethnicity, language etc. In the subsequent year, the report focused on the issue of marginalization, and like its predecessor, indicated that “Governments are failing to address the root causes of marginalization in education” and showed how mutually reinforcing layers of disadvantage create extreme and persistent deprivation that undermine equal opportunities in education.
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Rapporteur on the right to education
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
  • All
Year
2011
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Other
Reference
SR Education, Report to the HRC (2011), A/HRC/17/29, para. 16.
Paragraph number
16