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  Failing our children: barriers to the right to education

  Human Rights Watch, 2005

  The paper examines barriers to education such as fees, the impact of HIV and AIDS, discrimination and lack of access, violence, child labour and gender-specific barriers. It also provides an assessment of the legal standards related to educational access.This report is based on more than thirty investigations conducted by Human Rights Watch in over twenty countries since 1998.
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  Study of policies and programmes addressing the right of street children to education

  Child Welfare Scheme, Nepal, 2005

  This research project analyses the government of Nepal's policies, strategies, and programmes in regard to Non-Formal Education (NFE) for out of school children, particularly street children as their basic fundamental right.The study addresses some key issues and highlights the initiatives taken by various organisations to address the educational problem for out of school children, particularly
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  60 million girls

  Save the Children Fund, 2005

  Universal right to education? Perhaps in theory, but not in reality. This booklet shows that school fees are the single largest global barrier to girl's education, preventing 60 million from participating in education.
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  Basic education in El Salvador: consolidating the foundations for quality and equal opportunities

  Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2005

  This study identifies the main strengths and weaknesses of basic education in El Salvador, focusing on preschool and primary education.
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  "Don’t forget us": the education and gender-based violence protection needs of adolescent girls from Darfur in Chad

  Women's Refugee Commission, 2005

  This document examines the conditions in a number of refugee camps for people from Darfur in Chad, focusing on education needs and protection from gender-based violence for adolescent girls.The findings include: all refugee camps had education programmes.
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  Exploring the linkages between children’s independent migration and education: evidence from Ghana

  Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2005

  This paper explores the linkages between children’s independent migration and education, both formal and non-formal, who have moved from rural, farming households in northern Ghana to rural and urban households in central and southern Ghana.
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  Progress for children: a report card on gender parity and primary education

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2005

  This report card, which is part of a series in which UNICEF monitors progress for children in the lead-up to 2015, measures the world’s advances towards Millennium Development Goals 2 and 3, which pursue universal primary education and gender equality and women’s empowerment.
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  Providing education to girls from remote and rural areas

  UNESDOC: Online UNESCO documents, 2005

  This policy brief documents how boarding schools have been used in order to ensure access to education for children who might otherwise be deprived of it. The brief discusses both advantages and disadvantages of this educational strategy.
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  The responses of child labour, school enrollment, and grade repetition to the loss of parental earnings in Brazil, 1982-1999

  World Bank, 2005

  This paper examines how the loss of earnings by the head of a household in Brazil affects how his children spend their time in school and work. It opens with a simple theoretical explanation of how income shocks may lead to socially inefficient school drop-out and labour market entry by children in credit-constrained households.
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  A scorecard on gender equality and girls' education in Asia 1990-2000

  UNESCO Bangkok: Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, 2004

  This briefing reports on results derived from applying a methodology for measuring gender equality in schooling and education to Asian countries. The methodology takes some ideas of measurement associated with Amartya Sen's capability approach and utilises these in relation to existing data sets regarding girls' access to and continuation in school, as well as to their survival into adult life.

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