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Violations Of Human Rights : The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights

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Violations of Human Rights
The right to education is identified as the most fundamental human right and is understood to ensure primary education is compulsory for children of all ages. Education is intrinsically valuable as society’s most effective tool for personal empowerment, enhancing human dignity through its knowledge, wisdom and understanding. My question is, why are people still being deprived of one right that representatives from every country have promised the whole world?
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) states that everyone has the right to education and education shall be free – at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. However, in poverty stricken nations millions of children remain unschooled. The most persistent barriers to education are political and economic instability, conflict and extreme household poverty. These factors alone account to more than half of the worlds out-of-school children. This refers back to multiple articles, for example, Article 2, where ‘Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedom set forth in this declaration, without distinction of any kind such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or any other status.’ However, children with disabilities, who speak different languages, are poverty stricken, in child labour, live in conflict-affected situations, or are female e.g. are not catered for. Despite the protections listed in the

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