This indicator assesses whether the State has adopted laws and/or policies that guarantee the right to education of students from rural and remote areas, including the provision of the necessary equipment and support for them to attend school, including ECCE centres/pre-primary schools.
UNESCO Convention against Discrimination in Education, Articles 2.2 and 3 ; International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), Article 2.2, General Comment No. 13 (para. 6); Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), Article 5(v) ; Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Article 2; Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), Articles 2 and 10, General Comment No. 34 (paras. 43 and 44), General Comment No. 36 (paras. 29, 32a, b and d); Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), Article 3; International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (ICMW), Article 7.
Note that laws / legislative provisions will be more protective than policies. For more information see our webpage ‘What information to look at’ and chapter 6 of the RTE / UNESCO Right to Education handbook.