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Show - EDUCA TION 2 - The commission recognizes the right of everyone to education directed to the full development of the human personality and the sense dignity, and strengthening the respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. Primary education should be compulsory and available free to all, and secondary education in its different forms, including technical and vocational, should be generally available. to all. Higher education should be accessable to all on the basis of capacity, and adult ed ucation should be encouraged; Parents or guardians should have the liberty to select qual ified schools for children other, than those established by the public authorities to ensure that religious and moral education conforms to their own convictions. of its A report by the International Labor Office noted that auto mation and related technological developments, by reducing the physical effort required in many jobs, tend to break distinctions between men and women workers'. In some countries, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT down the traditional technological advances have steadily widened opportunities for women in all sectors of the economy; in others, when employment opportunities for all workers are in short supply, women workers, are likely to suffer adverse consequences. The commission urges the enactment of legislation, including wage boards, to eliminate discrimination against women in the field of employment and to insure equal pay for equal work. Women should be encouraged to join trade unions and participate in their activities '. Employment opportunities should be expanded for women through agrarian re form, cottage industries, community development programs, and self-help and mutual assistance schemes. Women should be provided adequate childcare facilities and centers formaternal and child welfare Women's organizations have been active in social development on two levels: (1) improving conditions for the general population in the community, and (2) increasing the participation of women in community affairs through the training and leadership opportunities , , they offer. The commis sion feels that the equal status of husband and wife should be insured, especially in that women should have free choice of a husband and enter into marriage ronly with their free and full consent, and should have equal rights with men during marriage and at its dissolution, Child marriage and bethroth al of girls before puberty should be prohibited, and a minimum age for marriage and MARRIAG E young compulsory registration of marriages in an official registry should .be established. Neither the marriage between a national and an alien nor its dissolution should have any automatic effect on the wife's nationality. Several countries have agreed to facilitate an alien woman's voluntary acquisition of her husband's nationality. Governments should insure the equality of the rights and duties of husband and wife in conformity with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The commission has recom mended the following principles for insuring such equality: (1) women shall have equal rights with men in respect, to guardianship of their minor children including parental author FAMILY AND PROPERTY RIGHTS ity over them, care, education, and maintenance; (2) both spouses shall have qual rights and duties with regard to. the admlntstratlon of their minor children's property within legal limitation necessary to insure that administration is in the interest of the children; (3) no discrimination shall be made between men and women with regard to decisions on the cus tody, guardianship, or other parental rights in the event of divorce, annulment, or legal separation, .and the interest of the children shall be the paramount consideration. Equality and non -discrimination should be practiced in respect to unwed mothers and to persons, |
