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Equality of Educational Opportunity: Myth or Reality?

2015-11-17T21:56:33+00:00

Author: Vera Kokkali

The centrality of gender equality, women’s empowerment and the realization of women’s rights in achieving social justice has been increasingly recognized in recent decades. This recognition is evident in a number of international norms and agreements. Despite the fact that there are international laws which protect women’s right to education, in many countries, girls are not allowed to attend the school. Violence, conflicts, early marriage, traditional attitudes and extreme poverty are the most in common problems that keep away young women from education. In fact, women represent the two thirds of the world’s 775 million illiterates. Although, even if we are talking about the situation in developed countries, women still face remarkable challenges and obstacles when they decide to follow an academic career.

Why So Many Syrian Children Are Making The Trek To Europe Alone

2015-10-15T17:02:13+00:00

“I wake up and I don’t hear any bombs,” said one teenager who took the perilous journey from Damascus to Berlin by himself.

BERLIN — Oday was 16 when he made the plan to save his family.

Rights of the Child

2015-10-03T20:37:14+00:00

Μaria Savidaki, Pre-school educator
Scientific Collaborator
Adolescent Health Unit (A.H.U)
Second Dpt Pediatrics
"P.&A.Kyriakou"Children's Hospital
University of Athens

To begin with...

Child is any human being under the age of 18 years old, unless he/she becomes an adult by law, under certain circumstances (Convention on the Rights of the Child), (https://www.humanium.org/en/convention). Even though there are no different definitions for the other terms used to describe youth in the international law, the movement for the children rights is consider distinct from the youth rights movement. The field of children’s rights is expanding on moral, politics, religion and law.