Africa: Rights Progress for Pregnant Students

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Teenage mothers carry their children inside the library at the Serene Haven Secondary School, a boarding school with day care and counselling services, in Nyeri, Kenya, January 8, 2021. © 2021 Monicah Mwangi/Reuters (Nairobi) – African countries have taken important steps in recent years to protect the right to education of pregnant students and adolescent mothers, Human Rights Watch said today. Since 2019, at least five sub-Saharan African countries – Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Uganda, and São Tomé e Príncipe – have either revoked restrictive or discriminatory…

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