in selecting schools for their children other than governmental schools, provided that the latter comply with the minimum educational standards which the State may impose or affirm. 11. Moreover, Part III - Article (10) of Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) to which the Kingdom of Bahrain acceded in accordance with Decree-Law No. (5) of 2002, states, “States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in order to ensure to them equal rights with men in the field of education and in particular to ensure, on a basis of equality of men and women: (a) The same conditions for career and vocational guidance, for access to studies and for the achievement of diplomas in educational establishments of all categories in rural as well as in urban areas; this equality shall be ensured in pre-school, general, technical, professional and higher technical education, as well as in all types of vocational training; (b) Access to the same curricula, the same examinations, teaching staff with qualifications of the same standard and school premises and equipment of the same quality; (c) The elimination of any stereotyped concept of the roles of men and women at all levels and in all forms of education by encouraging coeducation and other types of education which will help to achieve this aim and, in particular, by the revision of textbooks and school programmes and the adaptation of teaching methods; (d ) The same opportunities to benefit from scholarships and other study grants; (e) The same opportunities for access to programmes of continuing education, including adult and functional literacy programmes, particularly those aimed at reducing, at the earliest possible time, any gap in education existing between men and women; (f) The reduction of female student drop-out rates and the organization of programmes for girls and women who have left school prematurely; (g) The same Opportunities to participate actively in sports and physical education; (h) Access to specific educational information to help to ensure the health and well-being of families, including information and advice on family planning.”. 12. Article (24) of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, to which acceded the Kingdom of Bahrain in accordance with Law No. (22) of 2011 in the section related to “education” emphasized the necessity for all the signatory states to believe in the right of the disabled to education, alongside the necessity for all those states to take all the necessary measures to implement this right without discrimination, and based on equal opportunities and the right of the disabled persons to enjoy the highest standards of education and technical and vocational training, while providing and guaranteeing the existence of the university educational system at all levels. 13. Moreover, Articles (28) and (29) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child of 1989, to which the Kingdom of Bahrain acceded in accordance with Decree-Law No. (16) of 1991, guaranteed the recognition of the states parties to this Convention of the right of the child to education and guaranteeing the exercise of this right through endeavouring for its full gradual materialization and based on the principle of equal opportunity. 14. The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination was keen in Article Five Paragraph (e) Clause (5) to guarantee the right of every person to education and training without discrimination based on race or colour or national or ethnic origin. 94