Teenage pregnancy is a complex social issue often caused by human rights violations such as gender-based violence against girls, child marriage, lack of access to sexual and reproductive health services, and lack of access to education. Often these violations happen to the most marginalised girls, particularly girls with disabilities, girls living in poverty, and girls living in rural areas.

Violence against children is widespread, across different cultures and societies.  It occurs everywhere including homes, schools and streets; in places of work and entertainment, and care and detention centres.

This indicator measures whether the State prioritises the funding of public education, and only funds eligible private educational institutions when substantive, procedural and operational requirements are met.

As interpreted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child in its General Comment 14 (para.79), in order to ensure better quality education for all children States have to recruit a sufficient number of qualified teachers and other education support personnel in different education settings. This indicator examines the number of qualified teachers and other education support personnel to be recruited for addressing teacher shortages.

 

Human rights education (HRE) is a lifelong process aimed at empowering people through fostering knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours needed to uphold human rights for all members of society. HRE stands to empower children and others to imbibe fundamental human rights principles such as dignity, equality, and non-discrimination through an embedded learning process - that includes education, training and information.

This indicator examines if the State has sufficient number of public schools, including ECCE centres, to accommodate the needs of children in both rural and urban areas having access to public education.

The infrastructure requirements/standards may vary slightly depending on the culture, weather, geographical location, and domestic norms and standards. However, some of the basic amenities that every educational facility should have consist of :

This includes norms, standards, and guidelines set for infrastructure facilities and safety in schools and other educational institutions including ECCE centres, either in the domestic law or by the Ministry of Education or other relevant ministries or by the statutory bodies. This indicator assesses if such norms are set either by law or policies.

As emphasised by the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, promoting gender equality perspectives and elimination of any gender-stereotyped concept of the roles of men and women at all levels and in all forms of education is crucial to eliminate structural forms of gender discrimination rooted in prejudices and customary practices.   This indicator is to assess if content on gender equality is integrated into the different levels of education and if non-stereotypical educational curricula are developed.

 

This indicator examines whether children from a particular marginalised community have equal access to education. Marginalised groups include women and girls, Indigenous peoples and minorities, persons with disabilities, persons with HIV / AIDS, child labourers, persons in detention, migrants, refugees and IDPs, and persons living in poverty.