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Senegal: Unchecked Abuses in Quranic Schools

President Sall Should Use Second Term to Protect Talibé Children

Tuesday 11 June 2019


(Dakar, June 11, 2019) – Severe abuse, exploitation, and neglect of children known as talibés continue at alarming rates in many of Senegal’s Quranic schools, Human Rights Watch and the Platform for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (PPDH), a coalition of Senegalese rights groups, said in a report released today.

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