And yet we also live in a world that ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child a decade ago, a world that recognized free and compulsory education as the right of every child.
Governments have both a legal and a moral responsibility to fulfill that obligation.
She said that the campaign to abolish school fees and related charges would lift that burden from children and their families and place it where it belongs. National governments can and should reallocate budgets to strengthen the education sector. The international community must relieve the debt that siphons resources from schools.