Millions of Children Denied Free Secondary Education

Expand Secondary school students in a classroom in southern Senegal.  © 2017 Elin Martínez/Human Rights Watch   (Dakar) – The slow growth of free secondary education for all is jeopardizing the futures of millions of children globally, Human Rights Watch said today, in advance of the Global Partnership for Education’s (GPE) 2018 Replenishment Conference in Dakar, Senegal. Globally, more than 264 million children are out of primary and secondary school, including 62 million children of lower-secondary school age and 141 million of upper-secondary school age. Close to 80 percent of the world’s…

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