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"The convention on the Rights
of the Child and other human rights instruments including the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, insist that girls
have equal rights with boys to human rights. Moreover, research in different
parts of the world has shown that the traditional view of the girl child as one
born mainly to perform subservient and reproduction roles not requiring
investments, is short-sighted. This view not only denies the girl child her
basic human right, but is also detrimental to overall human, social and
economic development. Girls', and women's, education has been shown to
contribute critically to better child care, control of the HIV epidemic, and
reduction of poverty, and overall socioeconomic development."
"Children from poor and or
rural households and whose mothers had no education, are especially likely to
face exclusion from school."
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