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importance, however, that Governments, indigenous peoples, donors and civil society
organizations work together to ensure that special approaches are devised to coincide with the
aspirations of indigenous peoples, within the context of national Education for All strategies.46
115. Human rights indicators can also be used as a tool. OHCHR has prepared a structural
process outcome methodological framework for human rights indicators. The framework
assesses institutional mechanisms for the realization of human rights, such as the ratification and
adoption of legal instruments, the evaluation of State policy instruments which can lead directly
to the realization of a human right, and capturing individual and collective attainments of human
rights in context.
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The six goals, which also form part of the Millennium Development Goals, are (1) to expand
early childhood care and education; (2) to provide free and compulsory primary education for
all; (3) to promote learning and life skills for young people and adults; (4) to increase adult
literacy by 50 per cent; (5) to achieve gender parity by 2005, gender equality by 2015; and (6) to
improve the quality of action.