Dimension 3: boys, girls and adolescents of basic secondary school age not in primary or secondary school.
Dimension 5: boys, girls and adolescents in basic secondary school, but in serious risk of dropping out.
Other factors that contribute to attrition in secondary school, particularly among girls, are school fees, child marriages, a shortage of teachers, inadequate toilet facilities -- a basic need, as girls reach menstrual age -- and the lack of support from parents and the community, Cawasji said.
CNN: For a girl in rural India, education is a difficult pursuit
This programme is selected for serving the learning and training needs of the rural community, and particularly those of women and girls, through the provision of basic literacy and functional skills in over 950 centres.
Girls across the globe do not enjoy basic human rights: freedom from violence, to education, to inherit or own land, to decide when and whether to marry or bear children, or, the right to self-determination.
Despite the coordinated efforts of the Member States of UNESCO, millions of young girls and boys are still deprived of basic rights, such as access to education, basic quality of life and dignified work, preventing them from participating fully in their society.
For 78 poor countries, the report measures human poverty in terms of deprivations deprivations of life (nearly a third of the people in the least-developed countries are not expected to survive to 40), of basic education (particularly of girls), of access to public and private resources, including safe water.
Across the world, girls and women face violence as they try to exercise their basic rights, including that of education.
Putting into primary education some of the money now spent on servicing debt, on armies and on higher education combined with changed attitudes to girls' education could quickly give most African children basic skills in reading and writing.
Women and girls continue to face significant obstacles: nearly two-thirds of 796 million adults without basic literacy skills in 2008 were women.
As they go through basic training or flight school (once again it's the flyboys, and girls, vs. the grunts on the ground) and then into combat, "Starship Troopers" also revisits Hollywood clichis of every war that's ever been fought on the silver screen--including "Star Wars, " which, for these ahistoric recruits, is but a dim cultural memory.
Members of the parliament actively participated in the discussion during this session and underlined the need of bringing all out of school children into primary schools, provision of basic education opportunities to adult illiterates and out of school youth, particularly educational facilities for girls and women.
Mr. NELSON KAPEREMERA (Director Basic Education, Malawi): We still have some communities where the value of education for girls is still being doubted, because in the past they were valuing sending boys to school.
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