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Discrimination in Tanzania’s Schools Ruining Girls’ Lives

President Suluhu Should Support Education of Pregnant Girls

Tanzania’s first woman president, Samia Suluhu, took office in March 2021. Her administration has the opportunity to call on education authorities to end the exclusion of pregnant and married girls from public schools. She should urge them to adopt a…
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Tanzania Needs a Zero Tolerance Approach to Corporal Punishment

Video Showing Caning of High School Students Reignites Debate

A few days ago, a video widely shared online showed a regional commander in southern Tanzania caning boys who were lying on the ground as punishment for burning down their dormitories after their mobile phones were confiscated. …
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Rights Groups Press Tanzania to Drop Pregnant Students’ Ban

Government Should Ensure Pregnant Teens, Young Mothers go to School

Human rights groups are cranking up the pressure to get Tanzania’s government to quash its absurd and discriminatory ban on pregnant girls and teenage mothers attending school. This week, a Tanzanian human rights organization…
Cartoon for Tanzania Education Report
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East African Bishops Should Support Education for Pregnant Teens

The Church Should Reject Policies that Hinder Girls’ Access to Schools

Representatives of the Catholic church in Eastern Africa will meet in Addis Ababa later this week to discuss “vibrant diversity, equal dignity, and peaceful unity” in the region. A good place to start would be to change the…
“Angela,” 20, walks with her son near her home after returning from school in Migori county, western Kenya
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Tanzania is Not ‘Doing Well’ on Violence in Schools

Urgently End Corporal Punishment Against Children

This week, I came across a message that baffled me: Tanzania’s most senior United Nations official stated that, “Tanzania is among the countries doing well in combating violence against women and children.” On paper, this may be true.…
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World Bank Presses Uzbekistan to End Forced Labor

Some Students, Teachers, Medical Workers Released

The recent release of 200,000 university students and some teachers and medical workers from forced labor picking cotton in Uzbekistan came shortly after World Bank President Jim Yong Kim’s first meeting with the country’s new president, Shavkat…
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South Korea Backslides on Sex Education

Excluding LGBT Topics From Curriculum Risks Health, Education

Education ministry officials in Seoul said this week that South Korea’s new national sex education curriculum, due to roll out in March, will not mention homosexuality. This continues a backsliding that began nearly two years ago, when the government…
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Serbian Children with Disabilities Left Out of School

Government Should Implement Law Providing for Inclusive Education

Today, September 1st, will be an exciting first day of school for most Serbian children. But for many children with disabilities, it will be just one more day without a chance to learn, make friends, and interact with peers and teachers. Take for…
A living room in Veternik Institution where children and adults with disabilities spend most of their days. There are no toys, education materials, or carpets on the floor. The only available source of stimulation is a TV attached to the wall.
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Dispatches: Millions of Children Are Still Not In School. Why?

“Nasser” wants to be a lawyer. The 18-year-old secondary school student in Shinyanga, Tanzania, is blind, and has barely any access to notes in braille or a braille writer - both essential study tools for him. Denied the same opportunities as his peers,…
Out of use Perkins braillers, or braille writers
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Dispatch: US Contradictions on Landmines and Cluster Munitions

“I was not born yet,” the Laotian child says after the reporter asks him if he knows where the unexploded submunition, lodged in the ground near his village, came from. Although only a child, the boy knows that cluster munition remnants are dangerous…
A sign indicating the presence of landmines hangs from a barbed wire fence inside the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea October 27, 2010.
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Dispatches: Mishandling Teen Pregnancies in Sierra Leone

Pregnant teenagers and their right to education are in the spotlight again, this time as Sierra Leone tries to ban “visibly pregnant” girls from taking their exams in primary and secondary school. The “ban” comes just two weeks after President Jacob Zuma…
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Dispatches: Wrong Message to Uzbekistan on Forced Labor

A report reveals that the World Bank’s Inspection Panel, its quasi-independent accountability mechanism, won’t investigate whether the bank is perpetuating forced labor in Uzbekistan, even though its initial examination found that bank projects in the…

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