The Civil society adds that through article 10, the state guarantees the right to education for all Algerian females and Algerian males without discrimination based on gender, social origin or geographical origin. Article 11 states that the right to education has become a reality by the generalization of basic education and the guaranty of equal opportunity in terms of education and further education, following basic education. Article 12 confirms that education is compulsory for all girls and all boys aged 6 to 16 years of age. However, the duration of compulsory education can be extended for two years for students with disabilities. National Literacy Program: The Algerian Literacy Association "IQRAA ' is a non-profit NGO, founded in 1990, is organized throughout the country and has a large number of volunteers. It works in the field of literacy, education and training, through the implementation of integration and promotion programmes for populations in rural and remote areas. Its main objective is to fight against illiteracy, obscurantism, exclusion, school dropouts and poverty, to inform, educate and mobilize people on the right to education and its obligation as the only means to fight against this scourge and it contributes to the achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as well as the United Nations Decade for Literacy. The literacy program is open to all citizens, it is implemented in schools, youth centres, training centres, cultural centres, in the business environment (companies factories institutions etc.) in mosques and in prisons. Several agreements have been signed with various institutions to facilitate access to the locations and support for learners. Since its inception, IQRAA contributed to literacy of over 1,681,000 citizens including 1,543,906 women: The programme (Literacy, Education and Integration of Women (AFIF) has helped train and empower more than 23,000 young women between 18 and 35 years. As for the insertion in schools, more than 15,232 children have joined formal schools after strengthening their reading and writing skills in the IQRAA centres. Teacher training each year reaches out to more than 4,400 volunteers whose education level ranges from the third year of lower secondary school to baccalaureate and university. The design of educational tools has resulted in the development of 10 books with various contents addressing its "useful learning" programme through the popularisation of certain laws such as the Family Code or the Universal Declaration of Human Rights or the rights and duties of prisoners, the fight against violence. Aided by its partners and donors, IQRAA has built 04 neighbourhood centres for women; it has rehabilitated 04 others by equipping them with the necessary support for rural women. To ensure the success of its programme, it equipped two nurseries children in the South (Abalessa and Ain Amenasse as a support measure). Through its extensive program, it participated in the Realization of the National Literacy Strategy adopted by the Government in 2007, which should lead Algeria to reduce the illiteracy rate by half by 2015. Several surveys and studies have been carried out by IQRAA in partnership with the CENEAP. The latest "50 years of struggle against illiteracy in Algeria" announced that in 2015, the illiteracy rate would be 14.1%. 49

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