African Union Conference Addresses Pregnant and Parenting Students

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A secondary school student who is pregnant holds a doll inside her home in the Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya on September 30, 2020. © 2020 Monicah Mwangi/Reuters The African Union Commission and its specialized agency on girls and women’s education is currently hosting a conference in Addis Ababa with government ministers, education experts, and civil society representatives to accelerate progress on girls’ and women’s education.Fifty-one million girls are out of school across Africa. Globally, nine of the ten countries with the highest education exclusion rates…

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