Senegal fails to stop abuse of children in Qur'anic schools

A year on from a government crackdown, children have been sent back to abusive teachers and once again are being sent out to beg, says report

Tens of thousands of children in Senegal are still being forced to beg for their food by abusive teachers in Qur’anic schools, a year after the government began a crackdown on the issue, according to a survey.

A report from Human Rights Watch (HRW) found that most of the children picked up on the streets by the authorities were later returned to the schoolteachers who had sent them out soliciting in the first place.

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