Equality of opportunity in education 2011, para. 38
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- As regards equal opportunities for men and women, the Beijing Platform for Action, adopted at the Fourth World Conference for Women in 1995, includes women and education as one of the Platform’s 12 critical areas of concern, inter alia, recognizing that “equality of access to and attainment of educational qualifications is necessary if more women are to become agents of change.” The Platform for Action calls on Governments to, inter alia, “advance the goal of equal access to education by taking measures to eliminate discrimination in education at all levels,” and to “create a gender-sensitive educational system in order to ensure equal educational and training opportunities.”
- 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
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 2011
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Education, Report to the HRC (2011), A/HRC/17/29, para. 38.
- Paragraph number
- 38
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