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Educational opportunities for the girl child in Africa : a necessary revisit of the discrimination factor with reference to Egypt, South Africa and Cameroon
Prepared under the supervision of Dr. Enid Hill at the Department of Political Sciences, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/985 Educational opportunities for the girl child in Africa : a necessary revisit of the discrimination factor with reference to Egypt, South Africa and Cameroon Chofor Che, Christian-Aime UCTD Right to education Education Human rights Socio-economic rights Girl child Girls Children's rights Gender discrimination Egypt South Africa (SA) Cameroon Africa African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) Children's Charter African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) Draft Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women Draft Women's Protocol Prepared under the supervision of Dr. Enid Hill at the Department of Political Sciences, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, The American University in Cairo, Egypt "This paper is therefore inspired to look at education with respect to girl children in Africa. This paper, by drawing inspriation from other settings, is also motivated by the need to find solutions on how best the rights of the girl child can be protected in conjuction with the educational policy of African countries. ... The study is divided into six chapters. Chapter one provides the context in which the study is set, the objectives of the study and its importance. Chapter two examines the importance of the right to education and in education and takes note of the issue of discrimination with respect to girl child education in Africa. In chapter three various international treaties that concern provisions on education and the discrimination factor as to gender are identified. Also in the international milieu, the role of international bodies in the effective and efficient insurance of girl child education is included. Chapter four examines on a regional level, the extent to which the African Commission has effectively monitored the provision of the African Chater. The African Children's Charter and the Draft Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women (the Draft Women's Protocol) in Africa are also discussed in relation to provisions in the African Charter and work done on girl child education by the African Commission. In this chapter, a comparative study is also done of instruments and the implementation mechanisms offered by the Inter-American and European systems to the African human rights system in terms of the girl child education. This is so because in terms of experience, jurisprudence and institutions, these systems are considered to be more advanced than the African human rights sytem. Finally chapter five discusses girl child education on a national level in Africa. This chapter focuses on the experiences of South Africa, Egypt and Cameroon. Educational policy and other national legislative instruments such as the constitutions of these countries are included. In the conclusion, the paper puts forward recommendations to assist new and old African democracies in advancing an administrative and political approach to the issue of discrimination with respect to girl child education." -- Chapter 1. http://www.chr.up.ac.za/academic_pro/llm1/dissertations.html Centre for Human Rights LLM 2006-10-23T11:16:19Z 2003 03-Oct 2003 Mini Dissertation Chofor Che, C 2003, Educational opportunities for the girl child in Africa : a necessary revisit of the discrimination factor with reference to Egypt, South Africa and Cameroon, LLM Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/985> http://hdl.handle.net/2263/985 en LLM Dissertations 2003(5) Centre for Human Rights, Law Faculty, University of Pretoria 482814 bytes application/pdf application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Right to education Education Human rights Socio-economic rights Girl child Girls Children's rights Gender discrimination Egypt South Africa (SA) Cameroon Africa African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) Children's Charter African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) Draft Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women Draft Women's Protocol Educational opportunities for the girl child in Africa : a necessary revisit of the discrimination factor with reference to Egypt, South Africa and Cameroon |
| title | Educational opportunities for the girl child in Africa : a necessary revisit of the discrimination factor with reference to Egypt, South Africa and Cameroon |
| title_full | Educational opportunities for the girl child in Africa : a necessary revisit of the discrimination factor with reference to Egypt, South Africa and Cameroon |
| title_fullStr | Educational opportunities for the girl child in Africa : a necessary revisit of the discrimination factor with reference to Egypt, South Africa and Cameroon |
| title_full_unstemmed | Educational opportunities for the girl child in Africa : a necessary revisit of the discrimination factor with reference to Egypt, South Africa and Cameroon |
| title_short | Educational opportunities for the girl child in Africa : a necessary revisit of the discrimination factor with reference to Egypt, South Africa and Cameroon |
| title_sort | educational opportunities for the girl child in africa a necessary revisit of the discrimination factor with reference to egypt south africa and cameroon |
| topic | UCTD Right to education Education Human rights Socio-economic rights Girl child Girls Children's rights Gender discrimination Egypt South Africa (SA) Cameroon Africa African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) Children's Charter African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) Draft Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women Draft Women's Protocol |
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