24. Recognizes the right to education on the basis of equal opportunity and non-discrimination by making primary education compulsory and available free to all children, ensuring that all children have access to education of good quality, as well as making secondary education generally available and accessible to all, in particular through the progressive introduction of free education, bearing in mind that special measures to ensure equal access, including affirmative action, contribute to achieving equal opportunity and combating exclusion, and ensuring school attendance, in particular for girls and children from low-income families in order to achieve the objectives of Education for All, with the aim of realizing millennium development goal 2;
24. 确认机会均等和没有歧视的受教育权利，规定初等教育为所有儿童均应获得的免费义务教育，确保所有儿童均可获得优质教育，特别是通过逐步实行免费教育，普遍提供且使所有人均可获得中等教育，同时考虑到采取确保平等入学机会的特别措施，包括平权行动，有助于实现机会均等和消除排斥现象，并确保特别是女孩和低收入家庭子女的就学率，以期实现普及教育的目标，实现千年发展目标2；