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Maria Gaiyabu is a Nauruan educator, writer, and politician. She served as Nauru's Secretary of Education. [1] She is the first educator from Nauru to earn a doctorate. [2]She earned a master's degree in elementary education in 1996 from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa with the thesis Elementary Schooling Practices, Post-Colonial Politics and the Struggle of Identity in Nauru. [3]
Many reasons exist for why formal education for females is unavailable to so many, including cultural reasons. For example, some believe that a woman's education will get in the way of her duties as a wife and a mother. In some places in Africa where women marry at age 12 or 13, education hinders a young woman's development. [63]
As of 2002 the Nauru Department of Education gives the school 80% of its funds. [16] It is a Roman Catholic school. [22] The Location School (years 1-8 as of April 2002 [16]) - Within the "Location" housing development in Denigomodu, for expatriate children [23] This is the only school in Nauru which is not English medium. [24] Special schools:
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Women's education in West Africa manifested in both formal and informal structures, with one of the more notable structures that had influence on women's education being preparatory schools labeled "Bush Schools". [57] These bush schools were institutions that would oftentimes boast near 100% graduation rates and completed courses.
According to a 2013 study by Abrahams, [74] South Africa has the fourth highest rate of female homicide with 12.9 per 100,000 women being murdered by intimate partners in South Africa annually. With a rate of 7.5/100,000 women, women in South Africa are four times more likely to be murdered with a gun than a woman in the United States.
Nauru became a member of the United Nations on 14 September 1999. [2] Of the nine core human rights treaties Nauru has ratified or acceded to four — the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (), the Convention Against Torture (), and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ().