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Reuters

Roughly a third of children in developing nations are forced to miss school because they must work, and the same number say their schools are unsafe, according to research released on Monday.
The highest rate of absenteeism among the 41 nations surveyed was in Afghanistan, where nine out of 10 children said work made them unable to go to school, said the ChildFund Alliance, a global network that promote children’s rights.
Globally, some 59 million children do not attend primary school, according to UNICEF, the United Nations’ children’s agency.
November 20 marks Universal Children’s Day, designed to promote the UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted in 1989.

The ChildFund Alliance survey questioned about 6,200 children ages 10 to 12.
“As they do so often and with such clarity, children are telling us what the problem is,” said Anne Lynam Goddard, president of ChildFund International, part of the network that conducted the poll.
“It’s up to adults to enact solutions,” she said in a statement.
Nearly a third of the children said their schools were not always safe. Danger was reported most in Burkina Faso, where one in five children said school was never safe.
The impoverished West African nation was rocked in January by an attack in its capital, Ouagadougou, claimed by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, that killed 30 people, and it has continued to suffer sporadic attacks.
UN member nations last year approved a global goal that by 2030 all children should be able to complete free quality primary and secondary education, but chronic under-funding is holding back progress, a UN report said this year.


One third of children in poor countries miss school to go to work: research study

epa05623959 An employee (R) of the Municipality of Athens hands over bags with supplies to a poor resident of the city, in Athens, Greece, 09 November 2016. One out of three Greeks, which corresponds to 3.8 million people, live under the poverty line or social exclusion, while 230.000 children live in households with no income at all, according to Eurostat. EPA/ORESTIS PANAGIOTOU

epa05617256 A man and his children, wearing a masks, drive a scooter in New Delhi, India, 04 November 2016. According to news reports, hundreds of people faced breathing problems and poor visibility due to heavy smog after fireworks were set off during Diwali festival worsening the pollution problem in Delhi. EPA/RAJAT GUPTA

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