![]() ![]() This report casts doubt on that assertion.īuilding on two previous investigations carried out by Human Rights Watch in 20- Scared at School: Sexual Violence against Girls in South African Schools and Forgotten Schools: Right to Basic Education for Children on Farms in South Africa-the report finds that progress on paper for children with disabilities has not translated into equal opportunities or protections on the ground. In 2015, the government declared it had reached universal enrollment in primary education and achieved the United Nations Millennium Development Goal on education, requiring it to ensure that all girls and boys were in school and had completed a full course of primary education by that year. Since 1996, the government has also introduced strong constitutional protections and legal and policy measures to safeguard every child’s right to education free from discrimination. South Africa was one of the first countries to ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2007, and is a party to five key international human rights treaties and two African treaties protecting and guaranteeing children economic and social rights. All people with disabilities have the right to continue learning and to learn and progress on an equal basis with all people. Maria Mashimbaye, mother of an 11-year-old boy with spina bifida, Johannesburg, October 2014Īll children, including those with disabilities, have a right to free and compulsory primary education, and to secondary education and further education or training. That is why I fought for education for him. He’s supposed to have life, to be independent. Edward Ndopu, activist, Johannesburg, November 2014 I can’t imagine him at age 15 unable to write his name. There isn’t really a culture of accessibility institutionalized in the school because we have to make it work. ![]()
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