Failing Our Children
Barriers to the Right to Education

I. Summary and Key Recommendations

Key Recommendations

II. School Fees

Recommendations

III. The Impact of HIV/AIDS

Recommendations

IV. Discrimination and Lack of Access

Rural and Indigenous Children

Internally Displaced and Migrant Children

Ethnicity, Race, Caste, and Religion

Children in Detention

Recommendations

V. Violence

Recommendations

VI. Child Labor

Recommendations

VII. Particular Challenges for Girls

Recommendations

VIII. Legal Standards

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September 2005