Exploitation in the name of education
Subtitle: uneven progress in ending forced child begging in Senegal
By: [Matt Wells]
Contributors: Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Published: 2014
Place of publication: [New York, New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 43
ISBN-13: 9781623131104
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Child labor; Child abuse; Begging
Other titles: Uneven progress in ending forced child begging in Senegal; Senegal :
Description: "The 43-page report examines Senegal's mixed record in addressing the problem in the year since a fire ripped through a Quranic boarding school in Dakar housed in a makeshift shack, killing eight boys. After the fire, President Macky Sall pledged to take immediate action to close schools where boys live in unsafe conditions or are exploited by teachers, who force them to beg and inflict severe punishment when the boys fail to return a set quota of money. While important legislation has advanced, authorities have taken little concrete action to end this abuse"--Publisher's website.
Notes: "March 2014"--Table of contents page.

"This report was researched and authored by Matt Wells..."--Page 43.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also issued online via the Human Rights Watch Web site.
Table of contents: title: Map of Senegal and Guinea-Bissau; title: Summary; title: Recommendations. To the National Assembly ; To the government of President Sall ; On the application of the law against forced begging ; On the regulation of Quranic schools ; To international donors; title: Methodology; title: I. Regulation of Quranic schools. Unsafe living conditions in Quranic schools marked by abuse ; Government efforts to introduce regulations, minimum standards ; Factors that threaten progress in realizing minimum standards ; Need for political will and courage ; Need for financial commitment to enforce regulations ; Allies in waiting : religious leaders and many Quranic teachers; title: II. Application of the law against forced begging. Exploitation and abuse through forced begging ; Government efforts to enforce the law against forced begging ; Factors that threaten progress in enforcing the Law ; Lack of high-level political will ; Lack of courage from lower-level authorities ; Untrained judges, police, and prosecutors ; Poor communication from the government; title: Acknowledgments.