Causes of Girls Dropout at Primary Schools in Southern Somalia and mitigating strategies.

Education is a Human right. This notion of education as a human right is universally accepted and protected by both legal and policy frameworks which take the form of various international instruments that underscore gender equality and equity, particularly when it comes to the provision of education as right. These may include, but not limited to the UN declaration of Human Rights (1948); the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1990); the UN Millennium Development Goals (2000), the Dakar Framework for Action Education for All Goals (2000), the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (1999), the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (which reaffirms education for girls as a basic human right) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of 2015. As a policy framework, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) seeks to safeguard and promote the rights of children through the reinforcement of the idea of the right to an acceptable and adaptable non-discriminatory education (UNICEF 2006). This deliberate effort is premised on evidence that presents girls as a category that has historically faced a number of challenges in their quest to access some of these rights, including education (Chant and Guttmann 2000; Herz and Sperling 2004).