a new generation : 25 years of efforts for gender equality in education
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Corporate
- Unesco
- Publish Year
- 2020
- Shelfmark
- digitaal
- Thesaurus
- onderwijs, inclusie, crisissen, gezondheid, 1990-1999, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw, statistiek
- Description
- This report looks at progress towards gender parity and equality in education from early childhood to adulthood since the adoption of the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. The report, published on the occasion of the International Day of the Girl Child, also shows where progress staggered and where difficulties might increase by the COVID-19 pandemic. It draws attention to good policies and practices to protect the right to education for all countries but also to areas that need attention in the current health crisis. Recommended is to focus on making schools more inclusive for all students, regardless of their background, ability or identity, requiring better sanitation facilities in schools, greater attention to school-related gender-based violence and policies encouraging pregnant girls to go back to school.