Education is a Right

Just think what it might be like to sit and witness all of your friends around you going to school and being able to learn how to read and write while you work on a farm. Or imagine being so bullied that your afraid to go to school because people pick on your race or disability. That doesn't sound like too much fun now does it? No, and it's really not for a lot of children and people. There is an about 100 million children that don't get to even see the inside of a class room and over half of them are girls. (Source: http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=30887&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html)

Since 1948 the right to education has been noticed universally once the Universal Declaration or Human Right's (UDHR) made it official. Yet, this human right just floats around not really being noticed and sometimes being cheated. Like, having to make children pay for an education which is undermining the concept of everyone has the right to an education. To some other parts of the world and people this right seems to be just a simple theory. The poorest countries are the ones who struggle with this issue the most because their government is too involved in other situations that are trying to be fixed. But what some people don't realize is that this is just as big of a situation as any other human right. (Source: http://www.oppapers.com/essays/The-HisTory-Of-Right-To-Education/402329)

No matter your age, gender, race, religion, disability and so forth you are entitled to a free elementary education. But not everyone if able to get this free education because they are held back from certain laws or rules that people make. Everyday children aren't allowed to go to school or can't because they have to work, or are discriminate. But, not just 3rd world children either, pregnant woman drop out of school due to harassment or other issues. Woman in general often aren't allowed to go to school for reasons  that they are discriminated in gender or other unspecific reasons. That is why you see people like Oprah who is an extremely wealthy and famous woman opening up an only girl's school in a place where girls and woman aren't allowed to be educated. There are 152 girls that will attend her school that costed her 40 million dollars in South Africa. (Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/02/AR2007010200083.html)


"I wanted to give this opportunity to girls who had a light so bright that not even poverty could dim that light." -Oprah Winfrey