GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN THE 21STCENTURY, SUSTAINABLE EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (SED) AMONG WOMEN, AND LEGAL EXPLANATION ON HUMAN RIGHTS SPECIFICATION ON FREEDOM OF KNOWLEDGE A STUDY OF NORTH OF WESTERN NIGERIA

Abstract

The paper focused on Girl-child education policy in Sokoto State Nigeria. The movement of education from primitive society to organic society had been a very beautiful transition in the history of human civilization. The study adopted the fundamental right of girl education in Nigeria, which had been a policy established by government (education for all). The study had technically, observed that girls child education in Nigeria was associated with number of socio-economic and political challenges faced by women in Nigeria, indeed Sokoto State. In order to achieve this epistemological task among government, stakeholders, spiritual and community leaders, indeed parents, vital awareness is needed particularly, from the family level. The study utilized and highlighted secondary information to ensure adequate and valid data. The study therefore, introduced, and assessed governmental policy such as National Gender Policy in Basic Education that’ served as response to the challenges of achieving gender equality in education, as expressed in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which states that access to quality education is the right of every Nigerian child male or female. The findings, therefore, revealed that, the possible actions Taken by the parents, government, traditional rulers, spiritual leaders, communality elders and stakeholders where very weak. The attainment of gender equality is not only seen as an end in itself, being a human rights issue, but is also a prerequisite for the achievement of national and international sustainable women education in the 21st century, targeting Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) before the year 2020. The study recommendations with some adoptable strategies as tools for enhancing women or girls child education.