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The return on investments in universal primary education is indubitable.

Education promotes personal development and economic growth. It is also the first condition of democracy. But above all:

Education is a human right.

Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) made education a fundamental right of man, like the right to water, food and housing. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified in 1989 by 192 countries, proclaims the right of all children to free education, relevant and quality. At the World Education Forum in Dakar in 2000, participants from 164 countries pledged to achieve education for all by 2015.

Education is a catalyst for human development.

Education allows everyone to acquire the tools and knowledge necessary to understand today’s world and participate. It helps to maintain the values essential to the well-being individually and collectively. It is the foundation for learning throughout life. It creates confidence and provides the skills needed to participate in public debate.
Education makes it more autonomous and more aware of his rights and opportunities.

Education improves quality of life.

Education strengthens the ability of families to manage health problems, improve nutrition and child care and predict the future.

Basic education helps girls and women to control basic health care, nutrition and family planning, as well as their personal potential.
Educated women are marrying later and having fewer children and have better access to prenatal care.

- Children of mothers who have studied are healthier and better fed and they are more likely to attend school and succeed in their studies than children of mothers who have never been to school.

- In the Philippines, the fact that mothers have received primary education halved the risk of infant mortality; these risks are divided by three when they received secondary education.

- Education helps prevent labor, trafficking and sexual exploitation of children, and their recruitment as soldiers.

- It is one of the most effective weapons against HIV / AIDS and other diseases, it sensitizes the conditions of life and environmental protection.

- For each increase of 1% of literacy, life expectancy increases by 2 years.

Education promotes economic development …

Education is an essential factor in economic development and poverty reduction. It can be more productive, to participate fully in economic life and improve its income.

- An adult who received a primary education earns twice as much as an adult who has not been to school.

- In Niger, poverty incidence is 70% in families where parents have not received any education, against 56% in families where parents have attended primary school.

- Agricultural practices can be improved through basic education.

- In Uganda, four years of primary education improve the production of a farmer of 7%.

- Education is the starting point for acquiring knowledge and skills necessary to participate in globalization and technological change and to reap the benefits.

… And also promotes political stability and democracy.

Education teaches people to behave as responsible citizens and informed, and make their voices heard in the political arena and in society, essential to maintaining democracy. It also provides knowledge and awareness needed to promote tolerance and understanding among peoples.

In Bangladesh, women with secondary education are three times more likely to have a political meeting that women who have not been to school

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