Should Children Work? Dilemmas of Children’s Educational Rights in the Global South
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Southern African Institute for Policy and Research
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The realisation of Children’s Rights and the right to education, in particular, have for quite long left the children of the Global South at a crossroads. The ideal of a childhood free from work has in itself become a barrier to access this social good. As such, due to their country’s minimal or non-existent educational funding and family abject poverty, some children in the Global South have realised that adopting a pragmatic strategy of combining school and work is the only feasible solution. This study, therefore, examines the interface between children’s work and schooling in the Global South.
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Education, Global South, Rights, Children, UNCRC, Work