The Independent Commission for Human Rights
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, particulary
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.
Article 11
1. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate
discrimination against women in the field of employment in order to
ensure, on a basis of equality of men and women, the same rights, in
particular:
(a) The right to work as an inalienable right of all human beings;
(b) The right to the same employment opportunities, including the
application of the same criteria for selection in matters of employment;
(c) The right to free choice of profession and employment, the right
to promotion, job security and all benefits and conditions of service
and the right to receive vocational training and retraining, including
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