Need for Human Rights Education for Female Students in Assam: A Case Study in Kokrajhar District of Assam

Human rights education is an indispensable part of the right “To Education” and has of late gained larger recognition as a Human Right itself. The key stone of human rights education is that the education should not only aim at producing trained professional workers, but also inculcating in them a sense of higher purpose. Human rights education aims at providing people and students with the abilities to accomplish and produce societal changes. Education is fundamental human right as well as catalyst for economic growth and human development. Women’s education is extremely important intrinsically, as it is their human right and required for flourishing of many of their capacities. It is, however, noticed that most programmes for education gender roles, especially motherhood in curriculum as well as impact evaluation. The present study has been conducted with an objective to have in-depth insight into the problem of female school drop outs in primary to higher secondary classes in Kokrajhar district of Assam.