Editing Secondary education (section)

==Right to a secondary education==
The [[United Nations]] was strong in its commitment to education for all but fell into linguistic difficulty defining that right.

<blockquote>"Article I: Purposes and functions
1. The purpose of the Organization is to contribute to peace and security by promoting collaboration among the nations through education, science and culture in order to further universal respect for justice, for the rule of law and for the human rights and fundamental freedoms which are affirmed for the peoples of the world, without distinction of race, sex, language or religion, by the [[Charter of the United Nations]]."</blockquote>

[[The Universal Declaration of Human Rights]] (1948) declared that elementary and fundamental education was a right to be enjoyed by all, but again could not define either elementary and fundamental education.
<blockquote>Article 26 :(1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.</blockquote>
It was assumed that elementary education was [[basic education]]—the entitlement for children—and fundamental education was a right for working people, but for a lawyer the definition is neither qualitative (stating what education means) or quantitative saying when it starts and when it is completed. The term secondary is not defined or mentioned. Together this has enabled countries to terminate free, compulsory, basic education at 11 or only continue education past eleven to boys.{{sfn|Basic Education|2007}}

Article 28, of the [[Convention on the Rights of the Child]] (1989) stated that primary education should be free and compulsory while different forms of secondary education, including general and vocational education, should be available and accessible to every
child. Free education should be provided and financial assistance offered in case of need.{{Sfn|Basic Education|2007|p=25}}
In 1990, at Jomtien again tried to define the content basic education and how it should be delivered. 'Basic education' is defined as 'action designed to meet 'basic learning needs'. 'primary schooling' is considered as 'the main delivery system of basic education'.
{{sfn|Basic Education|2007|p=6}} Which is explained in Principals for Action that:
<blockquote>addressing the basic learning needs of all means: early childhood care and development opportunities; relevant, quality primary schooling or equivalent out-of-school education for children; and literacy, basic knowledge and life skills training for youth and adults.'
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The assumption being made that basic knowledge and life skills training for youth was the function of secondary education. This was codified by the [[ISCED]] documents.{{Sfn|Basic Education|2007|p=8}} [[Dakar Framework for Action|The Dakar Framework for Action]] 2010 goal 2 states: Ensuring that by 2015 all children, particularly girls, children in difficult circumstances and those belonging to ethnic minorities, have access to and complete free and compulsory (primary in the sense basic) education of good quality. The Dakar Framework for Action 2010 goal 5 states: Eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2005, and achieving gender equality in education by 2015, with a focus on ensuring girls' full and equal access to and achievement in basic education of good quality.{{Sfn|Basic Education|2007|p=14}}

In 1996, the [[Council of Europe]] adopted the Revised [[European Social Charter]], which guarantees secondary education.<ref>{{cite web |title=European Social Charter |url=https://rm.coe.int/168007cf93 |website=[[Council of Europe]] |access-date=18 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213085529/https://rm.coe.int/168007cf93 |archive-date=2023-02-13 |language=en |date=1996 |url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Malala Yousafzai]], [[Nobel Peace Prize]] winner in a said in a 2017 interview that:
<blockquote>"My goal is to make sure every child, girl and boy, they get the opportunity to go to school." "It is their basic human right, so I will be working on that and I will never stop until I see the last child going to school."<ref>{{cite news|agency=Press Association|title=Malala Yousafzai receives offer to study at UK university|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/11/malala-yousafzai-receives-offer-to-study-at-uk-university-birmingham|access-date=11 March 2017|work=The Guardian|date=11 March 2017}}</ref>
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In 2017, [[Human Rights Watch]] adopted a policy calling on states to take immediate measures to ensure that secondary education is accessible to all free of charge, and compulsory through the end of lower-secondary school. This was a call for secondary education to be included as part of the minimum core of the right to education, and seen as an immediate obligation.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sheppard |first1=Bede |title=It's Time to Expand the Right to Education |journal=Nordic Journal of Human Rights |date=30 May 2022 |volume=40 |pages=96–117 |doi=10.1080/18918131.2022.2071401|s2cid=249211797 }}</ref>