The Importance Of Children's Right To Education

Imagine not knowing necessary educational skills like how to read, write, and solve math problems. This is a problem that many children around the world face, as they are limited or denied access to schooling. A calamity such as having little to no education causes long-term suffering for these children. While children’s rights to education remains a big issue, efforts are being made to address it constructively. Countless innocent children around the world are impacted by various discriminatory or limiting policies around the world; fortunately many international organizations are attempting to make a difference by helping fund primary education and support children’s rights to education. A child’s right to education is something

In Pakistan, for example: “Gender inequality in education is once of the major problems that Pakistani education entails” (Shakir). There are a few reasons that countries including Pakistan believe that girls are inferior including, “...Cultural restriction” and “...due to lack of girl’s school they are not allowed to attend boy schools” “Studies have revealed many reasons to such inequalities prevailing in the education sector that includes culture Lea restriction, religion, and societies that are against co-education” (Shakir). Although different cultures, religions, and societies have different values or beliefs, education for children is a human right that should never be denied or limited. The majority of the world has co-education, or at least equal schooling for both genders. These limitations put on children, more specifically girls, in regards to education sets them up for failure in the

A true solution needs to be strictly enforced, not just agreed upon, and must have a guarantee for every child to have access to schooling. A few other organizations aside from the UN, take a different approach, where rather than make policies, create schools and programs. The overall foundation of these groups as follows: “innovative educational programs that are among the world’s largest and most successful, including BRAC, an NGO in Bangladesh that owns and operated 32,000 primary schools; [and] Pratham, which provides literacy and other educational support programs, teaching 33 million children in India...(Epstein and Yuthas). With a brief summary of a more direct approach to guaranteeing education for children, one can see that change is occurring. The more and more opportunities for education and assistance for schooling creates a better future for all children. To spread the positive programs to every part of the world would be the best possible circumstance, although it is pretty