Work stops a third of children going to school in developing countries says report

Roughly a聽third of children in developing nations are forced to miss聽school because they must work 国产视频撀燼nd the same number say their聽schools are unsafe, according to research released yesterday.

The highest rate of absenteeism among the 41 nations聽surveyed was in Afghanistan, where nine out of 10 children said聽work made them unable to go to school, said the 颁丑颈濒诲贵耻苍诲听础濒濒颈补苍肠别, a global network that promote children国产视频檚 rights.

November 20 marks Universal Children国产视频檚 Day, designed to聽promote the United聽Nations国产视频� Convention on the Rights of the Child,聽adopted in 1989.聽The ChildFund Alliance survey questioned about 6200聽children ages 10 to 12 for the report Small Voices, Big Dreams 2016.

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Nearly a third of the children said their schools were not聽always safe. Danger was reported most in Burkina Faso, where one聽in five children said school was never safe.

The impoverished West African nation was rocked in January聽by an attack in its capital, Ouagadougou, claimed by al Qaeda in聽the Islamic Maghreb, that killed 30 people, and it has continued聽to suffer sporadic attacks.

UN聽member nations last year approved a global goal that by聽2030 all children should be able to complete free quality
primary and secondary education聽but chronic under-funding is聽holding back progress.